Name: The universal anesthesia machine
Uploaded: 2012-02-02T16:28:27Z
Duration: 11 min 6 s
Description: What if you're in surgery and the power goes out? No lights, no oxygen -- and your anesthesia stops flowing. It happens constantly in hospitals throughout the world, turning routine procedures into tragedies. Erica Frenkel demos one solution: the universal anesthesia machine.

What if you're in surgery and the power goes out? No lights, no oxygen -- and your anesthesia stops flowing. It happens constantly in hospitals throughout the world, turning routine procedures into tragedies. Erica Frenkel demos one solution: the universal anesthesia machine.

Erica Frenkel: The universal anesthesia machine

The universal anesthesia machine

35 million surgeries lack safe anesthesia annually, sparking a movement to redesign medical technology for low-resource settings.

The Universal Anesthesia Machine, built from necessity in Malawi, thrives without power, ensuring surgeries continue amid outages.

Deployed in 13 hospitals across four countries since 2010, this innovation has supported over 2,000 surgeries with no adverse events.