The U.S. Public Interest Research Group says that many manufacturers or respiratory ventilators do not provide access to repair documentation, limiting who can repair the equipment.
The advocacy group claims this practice discourages third-party medical repair companies or in-house medical engineers from trying to fix things. So USPIRG, which also sponsors a Right to Repair Campaign, says it has delivered a petition to ventilator manufacturers calling on them to release service manuals, service keys and schematics for their products.