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<p class="MsoNormal">As a USA paramedic, (NZ intensive care paramedic equivalent) I can answer some of this</p>
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Most ventilated patients require air with more than 22% O2 because the inner surfaces of the lung are damaged.</li></ol>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph">The O2 must be mixed in the right proportions with the air being pushed in by the ventilator</p>
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2) Spencer and Volker are right, look at</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.medgadget.com/2020/03/mit-emergency-ventilator-submitted-for-fda-review.html">https://www.medgadget.com/2020/03/mit-emergency-ventilator-submitted-for-fda-review.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">for an existing design, and at<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.agorize.com/en/challenges/code-life-challenge/pages/guidelines?lang=en">https://www.agorize.com/en/challenges/code-life-challenge/pages/guidelines?lang=en</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">for the requirements. This second (the Agorize challenge) is the Montreal/McGill effort and they will have their open source proposal in a week or two<br>
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I really like the MIT one – I had the same idea myself during a sleepless night - and there is also one team in the Montreal challenge that proposed it also (why I didn’t take my night thoughts further)<br>
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So – my advice – adapt the MIT design for what is available off the shelf here<o:p></o:p></p>
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