Charities Re-Purpose Non-Essential Sleep Apnea Machines Into Covid-19 Ventilators

Those who do not need their Phillips CPAP machine are sending them to charities to help save lives in other countries

Tuesday, August 24, 2021 - Sleep apnea machines, otherwise known as the Phillips CPAP machine, are in short supply since their recall last month. People's lives are at risk of being unable to breathe during the night if they can not use their sleep apnea prevention device. Failing to use one's prescribed sleep apnea prevention device can cause the patient to experience regularly interrupted sleep, high blood pressure, a stroke, heart problems like heart failure, an irregular heartbeat and having a heart attack, diabetes, mental fatigue, and depression, increased attention deficit disorder, and migraine headaches, according to WebMD. SoundSleepMedical.com tells their readers that failing to treat sleep apnea can have detrimental effects long-term as well such as causing stroke, cancer, and death. More than 20 different Phillips ventilators and sleep apnea prevention devices were recalled by the Food and Drug Administration on June 30, 2021, due to a defect that allegedly causes toxic particles and gasses to leach into the device's airway and inhaled directly into the patient's lungs. Follow this link for a complete explanation of the ramifications of the Phillips CPAP Recall.

While hundreds of thousands of people are waiting for further instructions on how to repair or replace their essential Phillips CPAP machine, others that do not have a critical need are donating them to charity. For some people, however, it may be too late. People that have developed lung disease or cancer are filing Phillips CPAP Cancer lawsuits seeking monetary damages. Phillips CPAP ventilators are in great demand due to the needs of critically ill Covid-19 patients. These machines and others recalled by Phillips may not be available until the third quarter of 2022. Organizations are have formed for people with non-critical sleep apnea conditions to donate their machines to be retooled and turned into ventilators for use in hospitals that are overwhelmed by the demand. The FDA advises that the risks of developing lung disease are not good enough reasons to stop using their Phillips CPAP machine. The FDA claims that the risks of using a defective Phillips CPAP device are outweighed by the risks of leaving Covid-19 untreated. Charitable organizations are asking Americans to donate their non-essential CPAP sleep apnea machines to them to be repurposed into ventilators and shipped to countries like India and Vietnam that are seeing a spike in Delta Variant Covid-19 cases that has overwhelmed their already shaky medical care systems. "IndiaCovidSOS.org is collecting the machines and providing parts to modify them, and arranging for them to be shipped to rural parts of the world, where health care infrastructure is poor and likely will be overwhelmed with any COVID-19 wave. Last year, a precursor to this project, VentilatorSOS (ventilatorsos.org), identified these machines as an untapped resource, and collected 20,000 BiPAP/CPAP machines from across the nation, repurposed them and sent them to 20 different countries," according to the TPG Online Daily website.

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