Questions tagged [medical-devices]

Last night I was reading some fascinating history of the first full-body MRI scanner and noticed that it's fundamentally different from modern scanners in one particular way: the static B field is vertical, while all the modern machines I've seen…

I have a hearing condition and need to wear ear muffs on my scooter. My muffs are 3M Peltor with a dB rating of 35dB. When riding my bike, the combined noise from the engine and the wind is about 80dB. Now in theory that should get me into about…

Now that Medtronic has open sourced (WIP reportedly for its completeness) the design of a ventilator, the following question to experts in medical engineering with specialization on lung ventilators. What could be blocking obstacles, if any, for a…