Someone on Hacker News had the idea of putting COVID patients on an airplane to increase air pressure (which is part of how ventilators work, due to Fick’s law of diffusion).
Airplanes pressurize to levels that aren’t as high pressure as being on the ground, I’m pretty sure. They’re trying to reduce the consequences of being at altitude, not increase above sea level.
Someone on Hacker News had the idea of putting COVID patients on an airplane to increase air pressure (which is part of how ventilators work, due to Fick’s law of diffusion).
Could this genuinely work?
Airplanes pressurize to levels that aren’t as high pressure as being on the ground, I’m pretty sure. They’re trying to reduce the consequences of being at altitude, not increase above sea level.