Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2021 Nov;2021:7636-7638. doi: 10.1109/EMBC46164.2021.9629517.
Mexico was caught unprepared to deal with the current COVID-19 pandemic. One of the most egregious failures was the incapability to provide an additional 10,000 ventilators in order to cope with the excess demand. The Mexican government proposed a program for funding the development of these devices and over 100 designs were submitted but were of below standard quality and performance. Only three designs have been approved up to date.This work analyzes the failures from the point of view of the incapability to design, develop and test locally made ventilator designs, and asks whether the national university system, after a history of 48 years of producing thousands of Biomedical Engineering students in over 60 institutions has become incapable of delivering a design of a medical device of medium complexity.
墨西哥在应对当前的 COVID-19 大流行时措手不及。最严重的失败之一是无法提供额外的 10000 台呼吸机来应对过度的需求。墨西哥政府提出了一个为这些设备的开发提供资金的方案，提交了超过 100 个设计方案，但质量和性能都低于标准。迄今为止，只有三个设计方案获得批准。本文从无法设计、开发和测试本地制造的呼吸机设计的角度分析了这些失败案例，并提出了一个问题，即拥有 48 年历史、在 60 多所院校培养了数千名生物医学工程专业学生的国家大学系统，是否已经无法设计出一种中等复杂程度的医疗器械。
