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Well, you can just use ketamine if you don't have a ventilator. Oh, anaesthetist here.
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That sophisticated machine you mentioned was Drager.
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IV anesthesia would not require an entire anesthesia machine, you could just use a ventilator or even just a bag-valve device on room-air and also it would be safer for the staff that is just my opinion I do however like this idea of a simple anesthesia machine!
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I think we should apply the principles of military simplicity and efficiency to more sectors of society.
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Tough crowd.
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How can you possibly know what I like? Are you a mind reader? Maybe you should give a TED talk if you have that skill rather than pretending to have it. No offence.
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@rmm2000 you like pointless jargon by nobody's that talk about motivation or creativity or whatever crap? These people are actually making something and getting crap done in the world instead of talking. It was an inspiring talk. no offense.
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why not come up with better battery back ups.
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BAD IDEA for most applications. Cost savings on doctors will be undercut by gigantic liabilities and deaths. Wrongful death suits will bankrupt the company that takes this to market.
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@MarkProffitt You can do and a lot of surgeries are done with only air and inhalation anesthetics. However, the inhalation anesthetic from the vaporizer displaces the oxygen content of air, so you must be very careful to not go below 17% oxygen, or the patient's brain could be injured. Oxygen on tap and always available is very desireable in anesthesia, because misadventures do occur, and oxygen is essential for flushing out inhalation anesthetics and for quickly oxygenating a patient.
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@2n918 When she said they can continue with the surgery using normal air I wondered why they don't just do that in the first place? Wouldn't it be simpler and a lot cheaper to just have a gauge for the percentage of oxygen that adjusts the anesthesia appropriately?
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3. People who see a problem, sit down and figure out a solution. Boy, how to make yourself very unpopular because you've made everyone else look like an idiot. They don't like that.
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ops, i clicked on this video thinking it was a one-woman show !!!
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This is a solution, but in my opinion, this is still overly complicated. A simple veterinary anesthesia machine will fill the bill, are mass produced and are available at a modest cost. A central oxygen concentrator and storage system makes much more sense. Oxygen can be concentrated and stored when the AC power is available, then used as needed, with a reserve availalble, eliminating the need for using room air.
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@ELuhn Yes, but most of us don't belong and never will to a technological elite. Still it shows more than anything else how over complex expensive technology can be reduced to a much more simple and cheaper form. It seems this is perfect way of reducing health care expenses and still keeping people safe. But don't tell the big boys who make these overengineered solutions :-)
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@gaiagale probably a bit of both. Yes, price is driven by greed as well as by technical necessity. Both parts are involved, but laymen routinely ignore the complexity part, because then the greed argument alone makes for a perfect "put them all against the wall" kind of cry. Which feels good, but doesn't get anybody anywhere. Which should be boring already, really
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Think about using machines like this in "developed country" hospitals, and how much less costs would be, just there.
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Veterinary inhalation anesthesia machines do not need an electrical supply, just the pressure from 100% oxygen cylinders. Why risk human health by requiring the anesthesiologist to adjust the anesthesia flow rates in a power outage (when the machine automatically switches to room air) when so much else may be needing attention. Keep It Simple, Sweetheart!!!!
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It is true, without that Oxygen readout a simple error in connecting supplies (oxygen with N2O) has killed patients before.
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complexity is your enemy in deficiency
http://www.ted.com What if you're in surgery and the power goes out? No lights, no oxygen -- and your anesthesia stops flowing. It happens constantly in hospitals throughout the world, turning routine procedures into tragedies. Erica Frenkel demos one solution: the universal anesthesia machine. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate If you have questions or comments about this or other TED videos, please go to http://support.ted.com