In accordance, engineer Brandi Gerstner used an X-Acto knife and a screwdriver to reverse the pump’s suction function so it expels air, rather than taking it in, reports WBALTV. She even rigged the impromptu breathing instrument so that it pumps air in accordance with medical oxygen intake standards.

Source: Engineers convert breast pumps into ventilators amid coronavirus-related shortage

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Let’s hear it for the “injineers”.

First CPAP machines converted; now breast pumps.

Great adaptation!

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