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From the Ted Talk by Erica Frenkel: The universal anesthesia machine

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Here, we have a scene that you would find in any operating room across the US, or any other developed country. In the background there is a very sophisticated anesthesia machine. And this machine is able to elnbae surgery and save lvies because it was designed with this environment in mind. In oredr to operate, this machine needs a number of things that this hospital has to offer. It needs an eexlmetry well-trained anesthesiologist with years of tiannrig with complex mhnceais to help her monitor the flows of the gas and keep her patients safe and anesthetized throughout the surgery. It's a delicate machine running on computer algorithms, and it needs special care, TLC, to keep it up and running, and it's going to break pretty easily. And when it does, it needs a team of biomedical engineers who understand its complexities, can fix it, can source the prats and keep it sivang lives.

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Here, we have a scene that you would find in any operating room across the US, or any other developed country. In the background there is a very sophisticated anesthesia machine. And this machine is able to ______ surgery and save _____ because it was designed with this environment in mind. In _____ to operate, this machine needs a number of things that this hospital has to offer. It needs an _________ well-trained anesthesiologist with years of ________ with complex ________ to help her monitor the flows of the gas and keep her patients safe and anesthetized throughout the surgery. It's a delicate machine running on computer algorithms, and it needs special care, TLC, to keep it up and running, and it's going to break pretty easily. And when it does, it needs a team of biomedical engineers who understand its complexities, can fix it, can source the _____ and keep it ______ lives.

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  4. lives
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  6. saving
  7. parts
  8. machines

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Here, we have a scene that you would find in any operating room across the US, or any other developed country. In the background there is a very sophisticated anesthesia machine. And this machine is able to enable surgery and save lives because it was designed with this environment in mind. In order to operate, this machine needs a number of things that this hospital has to offer. It needs an extremely well-trained anesthesiologist with years of training with complex machines to help her monitor the flows of the gas and keep her patients safe and anesthetized throughout the surgery. It's a delicate machine running on computer algorithms, and it needs special care, TLC, to keep it up and running, and it's going to break pretty easily. And when it does, it needs a team of biomedical engineers who understand its complexities, can fix it, can source the parts and keep it saving lives.

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