# How do ventilators work?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED-Ed
- Speaker: Alex Gendler
- Year: 2020
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, Teaching and learning
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/alex_gendler_how_do_ventilators_work)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

In the 16th century, physician Andreas Vesalius described how a suffocating animal could be kept alive by inserting a tube into its trachea and blowing air to inflate its lungs. Today, Vesalius's treatise is recognized as the first description of mechanical ventilation— a crucial practice in modern medicine. So how do our modern ventilators work? Alex Gendler explains the life-saving technology. \[Directed by Artrake Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson\].

## Lectures

1. [How do ventilators work?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/alex_gendler_how_do_ventilators_work/abd9093c837a), 6 min (TED's player)