Word: cpap
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After redesigning CPAP in 2002, Project Vietnam was able to introduce the technology in Hanoi...
After realizing the gravity of the situation in Vietnam during his mission in 2000, Ringer and his colleagues tried to convince local doctors to implement CPAP in their home country. The Project Vietnam contingent was able to garner some curiosity about CPAP through exhibitions using crude prototypes of the equipment...
...while many of the Vietnamese doctors were interested, says Ringer, they also wondered how they would repair CPAP machines if they malfunctioned and how they would afford replacement parts from the United States or other developed countries if the need arose...
Ringer then realized that in order to convince Vietnamese hospitals to start using CPAP, he and his colleagues would need to create a form of the technology that could be developed, assembled and maintained within Vietnam...
...engineer, Kirk Evans, developed the machine on site using parts available in Vietnam, while members of Project Vietnam and American neonatologists worked with him on a long-distance basis. In 2002, Evans created a version of CPAP that could be produced and maintained from within Vietnam. The new version costs only $400 to $500 in Vietnam, while CPAP usually costs $6,000 or more in the industrialized world, according to Ringer...