How do ventilators work? | Alex Gendler
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English - May 21, 2020 15:38 - 5 minutes - 43.4 MB Video - ★★★★ - 618 ratingsEducation ted teded animation Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In the 16th century, physician Andreas Vesalius described how a suffocating animal could be kept alive by inserting a tube into its trachea and blowing air to inflate its lungs. Today, Vesalius's treatise is recognized as the first description of mechanical ventilation— a crucial practice in modern medicine. So how do our modern ventilators work? Alex Gendler explains the life-saving technology. [Directed by Artrake Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson].