Still, filling it to 50% of its volume would only bring down refill time by 50%. And you only can fill to a certain percentage with patients as they are irregularly shaped. I suppose the real question is whether cost or hands-off reliability is the biggest concern.
I think that with 10 patients, such a system would cost $100k each, which is pretty good. With many such systems scattered around the remote, cold parts of the world, the probability of any fraction of systems being vandalized goes down, and the information gained about how such systems fail comes in quickly as a few of them fail (e.g. vacuum leaks).
Still, filling it to 50% of its volume would only bring down refill time by 50%. And you only can fill to a certain percentage with patients as they are irregularly shaped. I suppose the real question is whether cost or hands-off reliability is the biggest concern.
I think that with 10 patients, such a system would cost $100k each, which is pretty good. With many such systems scattered around the remote, cold parts of the world, the probability of any fraction of systems being vandalized goes down, and the information gained about how such systems fail comes in quickly as a few of them fail (e.g. vacuum leaks).