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Various medical equipment and the companies that produce them have come into scrutiny due to anti-consumer practices.  
Various medical equipment and the companies that produce them have come into scrutiny due to anti-consumer practices.  


=Examples=  
== Examples ==


=== Echographs ===


Echographs
=== MRI ===


=== CT-Scanners ===


MRI
==== Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation ====
[[Terumo Cardiovascular]] blocks 3rd party repair of the Advanced Perfusion System 1 Heart Lung Machine<ref>https://gizmodo.com/medical-device-company-stops-hospitals-from-fixing-machines-themselves-2000554096</ref>


=== Ventilators ===
Ventilators were affected by lack of a right to repair, notably during the Covid 19 pandemic<ref>https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/wyden-markey_auto_privacy_letter_to_ftc.pdf</ref>


CT-Scanners
=== Software ===
 
 
 
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
 
#[[Terumo Cardiovascular]] blocks 3rd party repair of the Advanced Perfusion System 1 Heart Lung Machine<ref>https://gizmodo.com/medical-device-company-stops-hospitals-from-fixing-machines-themselves-2000554096</ref>
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Ventilators
 
#Ventilators were affected by lack of a right to repair, notably during the Covid 19 pandemic<ref>https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/wyden-markey_auto_privacy_letter_to_ftc.pdf</ref>
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Software
 
A study was conducted in Cambridge in relation to software-dependent medical devices and how they would benefit from right to repair<ref>https://doi.org/10.1017/jme.2023.28</ref>
A study was conducted in Cambridge in relation to software-dependent medical devices and how they would benefit from right to repair<ref>https://doi.org/10.1017/jme.2023.28</ref>


[[Category:Echographs]]
[[Category:Echographs]]
== References ==
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