I'm a simple minded engineer. In my work I use ventilators frequently and I often have to service them so I'm not entirely unknowlegeable about these devices.
There is a large need for mechanical respiratoration (a ventilator) then I have a thought.... Has anyone considered one HUGE pump working as a ventilator? The average hospital has a capacity between 300 and 1000, why not have one huge shared resource as a pump. The pump should have the capacity of sourcing sufficient O2/Air to hundreds or thousands of patients. There are obvious supply chain and technical challenges (thinking of how you create all that O2, the valving, filtering etc).
Example: 6 liters of air/breath * 500 patient bed hosptial so a pump volume of 3000 liters * 12 breaths or 36000 liters/min capacity, pumps of this magnitude should already exist. This effective giant set of bellows could then could source into a large diameter tube which runs throughout an entire hospital or nursing home. Each patient would have individual takeoffs with valve controland similarly a return exhale system (one giant collector, sterilizing-filter, etc).
There is a large need for mechanical respiratoration (a ventilator) then I have a thought.... Has anyone considered one HUGE pump working as a ventilator? The average hospital has a capacity between 300 and 1000, why not have one huge shared resource as a pump. The pump should have the capacity of sourcing sufficient O2/Air to hundreds or thousands of patients. There are obvious supply chain and technical challenges (thinking of how you create all that O2, the valving, filtering etc).
Example: 6 liters of air/breath * 500 patient bed hosptial so a pump volume of 3000 liters * 12 breaths or 36000 liters/min capacity, pumps of this magnitude should already exist. This effective giant set of bellows could then could source into a large diameter tube which runs throughout an entire hospital or nursing home. Each patient would have individual takeoffs with valve controland similarly a return exhale system (one giant collector, sterilizing-filter, etc).