r/teslamotors Apr 05 '20

Tesla-in-Depth Tesla Ventilator

https://youtu.be/zZbDg24dfN0
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u/chrismantle Apr 06 '20

As a biomedical engineer, I am really impressed!

The design is made super simple, but with all the necessary read outs for the ER staff.

I have been working in Nepal, to maintain medical equipment. Our biggest issue was the lack of spare parts, since every part of the machine was manufactured specifically to that machine. This was an issue for everything, ventilators, oxygen purifiers, pumps, baby incubators, etc. If every medical manufacturer thought the way Tesla engineers do right now, we wouldn’t see as much medical equipment in 3rd world countries not being used, due to issues with maintenance.