# Erica Frenkel: The universal anesthesia machine

What if you're in surgery and the power goes out? No lights, no oxygen -- and your anesthesia stops flowing. It happens constantly in hospitals throughout the world, turning routine procedures into tragedies. Erica Frenkel demos one solution: the universal anesthesia machine.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2012
- Runtime: 11 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Science
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/EricaFrenkel_2011X)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Adult profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/EricaFrenkel_2011X?play=1)