CPAPs operational, approved & built, the ParaPacs are hitting the NHS, now the Penlon is approved with production up & running.
At the very least we will now have ventilator capacity at the Nightingale’s for a subsequent second wave of infections.
I would hope some of the cheaper offerings like the GTech, we didn’t end up approving, are still useful for the undeveloped world, especially as they were designed to run off-grid.
So I’ve just pointed a contact at this thread, your reply in particular dants, to someone closely involved with the challenge ventilator project, his reply was initially unprintable!
He then went into diplomatic mode and suggested that they had a limited use and may, just may have very limited use as a stopgap.none of them have any way of seriously preventing barotrauma to already seriously damaged diseased lungs. ‘it feels like a PR stunt’ their words not mine…
The refusal to join the consortium sounds more and more like negligence. Idiology over doing the best for the public good