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FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines (www.cbsnews.com)

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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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[–] dojan@lemmy.world 65 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Rubbish summary. My first question was "how can a device that basically forces you to breathe, kill you?"

The Dutch medical device maker has recalled millions of the breathing machines amid reports they were blowing gas and pieces of foam into the airways of those using the devices.

Polyester-based polyurethane foam used in the devices to reduce sound and vibration can break down, with black pieces of foam or invisible chemicals that can be breathed in or swallowed by the person using the device. "These issues could potentially result in serious injury and require medical intervention to prevent permanent injury," the FDA stated.

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Wow, how can this have been an oversight? Let's just blow a bunch of microplastics down everyone's throats.

Does not even make sense from a business standpoint, if you kill your customers you won't have customers.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Killing your customers slowly can be extremely profitable, and is preferred to not monetizing the poison at all (tobacco, alcohol, opioids, sugar, fossil fuels).

If this happened after 20 or 30 years it would be considered normal wear and tear, and well beyond the "usable life" of a product in the age of planned obsolescence.

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I could just be they breakdown slowly and weren't picked up by tests.

[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

There are cpap cleaners that use Ozone which breaks down the foam faster than the manufacturer thought possible.