Editing Talk:Medical equipment

== Deletion appeal posted ==

I posted appeal of deletion.  See reasons there.  [[User:Drakeula|Drakeula]] ([[User talk:Drakeula|talk]]) 02:33, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

== Structure for coverage of medical equipment? ==

@[[User:Beanie Bo|Beanie Bo]], and anybody else interested.  Please suggest what you think the structure of articles covering medical devices should be.  (I mean like an outline of article names.)

When I encountered the wiki, this article (Medical devices) seemed to be the central article/road map for the area.  I would expect it to expand to mention such issues as proprietary supplies, right to own/control your implanted devices, right to repair (personal equipment like wheelchairs, hospital equipment like ventilators, etc.)
Given the deletion proposal for this article and the moving of the medical ventilators device article to be an incident article, it seems like others have other ideas.  However, at the moment it seems like a choice between this and nothing.  Are there other articles that I missed?

Rather than just deleting what structure is here, I would like to see proposals of what people think should be here.  
[[User:Drakeula|Drakeula]] ([[User talk:Drakeula|talk]]) 02:43, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

== Where to cover things like artificial pancreas? ==

Background: glucose monitors and insulin injectors are products that have existed for a while.  In theory they could be combined to monitor sugar levels and adjust insulin accordingly (as the pancreas does).  For some time this combination was available through do it yourself solutions, but not available as a commercial product.  (There may be commercial products in this space now, I haven't checked.  Even if there are, the point remains that there was a time when they did not.)

There are issues impacting consumers relating to both glucose monitors and insulin injectors in this space.  It seems cumbersome to duplicate things and try to share this between articles on CGM and insulin injectors.  So, in an instance like this, should this be covered as a product page (even if the product is not something any particular company makes)?  Does this fit as an "incident" although there is no even or particular time involved?  

I pose this partly because it would help to know, and partly as an example of the sort of issue to be considered in planning a structure for coverage of medical devices on the wiki.  Thanks.  [[User:Drakeula|Drakeula]] ([[User talk:Drakeula|talk]])