Our hospital converted an air conditioner into a defibrillator! This crazy event took place because of a terrible shortage.
The most available thing on the market were HVAC parts due to a war.
One hospital had problems getting equipment, so they converted to ording window air conditioner and furnace parts and makeshifting them into hospital tools. Many small portable space heater parts were used as scapples and other tools, and air conditioner parts as bed frames and such. One day, an engineer was sick of people dying because of no defibrillator, so he began making one out of parts from a central air conditioner, window air conditioner, and hot water boiler heating system. This man’s father was a great HVAC technician, and he taught him how air purifiers, furnaces, heaters, and air conditioners work. He also taught him how to install central air conditioners, so this engineer had some good HVAC knowledge to work with. He worked in his personal shop, which soon was converted into a heating and cooling shop that was filled with different kinds of furnaces, air purifiers, and air conditioners. After about three months of consistent work, he was able to use parts from the hot water boiler, central air conditioner, and air purifier to make a very high quality defibrillator. When he presented the HVAC turned defibrillator to the hospital, they were very thankful and named him top HVAC technician of the hospital. After this, The engineer decided to go full time and make all kinds of helpful things out of cooling units, furnaces, and air purifiers. It wasn’t long before he had his own cooling and heating business.