Newsroom John Hyndman and Ivan Batistich with the Hyvan anaesthetic machine. The hospitals they visited were still patching up New Zealand’s old anaesthetic machines – often unsuccessfully, and dangerously. Newsroom Batistich and Hyndman test a Hyvan anaesthetic prototype on a sheep. Fonterra’s had a few of those.”Turnbull was put in charge of the whole local ventilator project; not only Hyvan, but investigating a raft of potential manufacturers. Newsroom After 30 years in the dairy industry, Alex Turnbull found himself managing the private sector ventilator project – for free, and remotely from lockdown.

Source: Stuff July 05, 2020 18:11 UTC