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Lot of stuff that can go wrong with ventilator patients:

- Blood pressure from intrathoracic pressure caused by ventilation. - Sedation and pain from ventilation - Obstruction of airway - Removal of airway secretions - Arterial Blood Gas checks (Blood Ph, Oxygenation, CO2 levels) - Secondary infection due to ventilation

https://www.nursingcenter.com/clinical-resources/nursing-poc...

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Fundamental stuff that can go wrong with ventilator patients who don't have ventilation:

Death.

Just saying, without medical supervision, current ventilator models are going to almost certain to cause deaths. An open source ventilator would either need to be implemented by medical experts or account for the above.

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