[mbreese]

While I don't disagree with your overall sentiment (I can't imagine relying on a RPi powered device -- even if it is just a display -- for clinical use), I think you're overthinking the motivation here...

> To be frank, I'd rather pay a nurse $50k in cash to pump a vent bag next to me than rely on your "project".

From what I've read (admittedly not much) -- this project isn't trying to disrupt the ventilator industry or make a bunch of sales. It isn't designed to give you a choice of a ventilator to remove a nurse. It's for situations when you don't have another choice... for when a hospital has run out of proper ventilators or there isn't a nurse available. This is not a first-choice device (even if it could be adapted to that in the future).