Saturday, April 7, 2012

Medical Innovations for the Real World: The Universal Anesthesia Machine

What happens when you take a $75,000 anesthesia machine from a hospital in the developed world and drop it in a 3rd world hospital that suffers an average of 16 power outages a month and has no spare parts?

What seems like a really cool charitable donation to a needy 3rd world country is not only useless … is downright dangerous. It is NOT GOOD when your anesthesia machine stops working while your belly is wide open. The machines break down and end up in a back room of the  hospital in a First World Medical Technology Graveyard.

http://healthworkscollective.com/dikedrummond/31126/medical-innovations-real-world-universal-anesthesia-machine?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+healthworkscollective_allposts+%28Healthworks+Collective%29

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