Erica Frenkel: The universal anesthesia machine

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.

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[ELuhn]

1. People who see a problem, shrug their shoulders and say, "That's a shame. What else is on TV?"

2. People who see a problem, fold their arms and proselytize bitterly about "the industry" or "the system."

3. People who see a problem, sit down and figure out a solution.

And the winner is...

[Rasenkrieger]

complexity is your enemy in deficiency

[ajbolit]

@l1hao

realy ?????

[l1hao]

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.

[2n918]

@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.

[MarkProffitt]

@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?

[grahamjohnbarr]

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.

[Penguinyyy]

ops, i clicked on this video thinking it was a one-woman show !!!