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FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines (www.cbsnews.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines::Update from the Food and Drug Agency comes days after Philips said it would stop selling the devices in the U.S.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

This isnt even about the materials breaking down, every product breaks down eventually. But cars from 30 years ago have better critical air path separation than that.... how badly did they fuck up the engineering to even make it possible for housing components to get sucked into the intake?

Oh, it probably would have cost an additional $0.45 per unit to inject the housing in a different way that provides a hard barrier between the mechanicals and air intake so it got shitcanned...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Maybe more like $0.05. But yeah..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Well either way the extra profit is worth the realized potential carnage. Oh well I guess, no one will go to jail anyway

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I'm not sure, but your comment seems to imply an assumption that the foam was designed to be external to the air path and is getting unintentionally sucked in? That's not the case, the foam is literally only inside an "air chamber" that the air directly travels through.