How a shampoo bottle is saving young lives

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Looking this up led me to Open Pediatrics, a lovely idea:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openpediatrics.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openpediatrics.org</a><p>A video going into more of the detail, on reflection the big idea seems to be the air pressure oscillations<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=rjmdNspYoy4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=rjmdNspYoy4</a>

It&#x27;s not clear to me if he invented a new device, or simply built a 2$ home made version of a 6000$ standard bubble-CPAP. In other word, is this a story about ingenuity saving lives, or about regulation and industry profiting on medical devices killing lives?<p>(Note that I&#x27;m not saying that we necessarily have too much regulation or that medical industry profits too much; I&#x27;m just saying that in this specific case they would be failing to save people, while overall they could still be optimal)

&gt; Ever heard of the concept of &quot;jugaad&quot;? It&#x27;s a Hindi term meaning cheap innovation.<p>Let&#x27;s use this word in English as well, as it allows to direct our attention to jugaad immediately.

What a nice story about keeping things simple.<p>Also, damn, neonatology must be brutal to work in at times.

<i>&quot;His invention was inspired by something he saw while visiting Australia.&quot;</i><p>Exchange visits(+) a good use of money perhaps? - spark that innovation.<p>(+) not necessarily just to 1st world countries by the way

&gt;&gt;The hospital now deploys it routinely and the number of children who die there from pneumonia has fallen by three-quarters. That means the survival rate in the Dhaka Hospital is today almost on a par with that of children treated in rich-world facilities, using conventional ventilators.<p>Innovation like this is facilitated by the lack of medical device regulations in Bangladesh.

Outlined: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;outline.com&#x2F;Yb8sLG" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;outline.com&#x2F;Yb8sLG</a>

This reminds me of the $0.68 microscope: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Qf-D1Upn-KU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Qf-D1Upn-KU</a>. I love how a slight change in perspective can result in such drastic applications of the same idea.

Blessed be this man and his inspiration that is now saving many lives. Seeing that little child entubed like that is so heartbreaking. I wonder why he can make a device with a plastic bottle and a similar device costs thousands of dollars more.

I tried to find out the name of the manufacturer of the low-flow oxygen delivery approach recommended by WHO, but couldn&#x27;t. Anybody else able to figure it out?

Why do I read this headline to myself in Adam Sandler&#x27;s voice???

The Economist article is paywalled for me, but BBC news has a piece at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-40498395" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-40498395</a> that describes the shampoo bottle hack.

Honestly the amount of screen space the economist takes away is ridicolous.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;U0ClW65" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;U0ClW65</a><p>(Yes I have an adblocker installed)