Today has been a nice
slow and chill day. Started at like 9:30 (slept in because today is Nicaragua’s
Independence Day. Had a good breakfast and have been blogging all morning. Played a bit of KF too with Cara from WPI. So
that was epic! Kevin and I went out to the same pizza place to get some lunch
and we both had banana smoothies with milk and we also split this good salad
with thousand island dressing and chicken chunks and a chicken pizza with
cheese in and on the crust (so deslish). After that we headed off to the
hospital to test out some oxygen concentrators. We got the one out of the
pediatric ward and got ready to test it, but asked the staff for some tubing to
hook it up to the testing device from Tulane University group. After that we
were all set to try the concentrator on the 220V in a room in the pediatric
ward, but there was no 220V in the room (only like 0.5V AC). So we then moved
to the lab with 220V and 110V for the device. Testing was easy, just plug in
the machine and device, hook up the tubing and wait for the final highest O2
output from the machine. We tested five machines and got the highest rating at
85% O2 according to the device. One of the 5 machines we tested
wouldn’t even hold the concentration high enough for the device to measure (the
internal compressor would kick on run for a bit and then die (another
project)). Anyways we did the testing and filled out the forms (for the Tulane
group) and then Kevin and I headed home (Dan had stayed home to rest more).
That was about the height of excitement on Independence Day down here.
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