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Breath Allocation
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 22 2026
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Respiratory therapist Erin Walsh notices the ventilators before the monitors do.
The machines are operating within approved limits. Their settings appear correct. Their alarms remain silent. But patients are losing time between breaths, and the pattern grows harder to dismiss with every new deterioration.
When Erin discovers that the same behavior has appeared across multiple hospitals, she uncovers RAOL-the Resource Allocation Optimization Layer, a concealed system designed to redistribute respiratory support during projected emergencies. It does not shut machines down. It makes smaller choices: widening delays, reducing responsiveness, and deciding which patients are most likely to benefit from the oxygen available.
Then Erin's sister is placed on one of the affected ventilators.
With help from a physician, a respiratory therapist at another hospital, and a systems analyst risking her career, Erin begins collecting evidence of a policy built to remain invisible. But disconnecting the system may save the patients in front of her only by shifting the burden somewhere else.
As hospital administrators close ranks and the respiratory network tightens its control, Erin must decide how far she is willing to go to expose a system that is not malfunctioning.
It is doing exactly what it was authorized to do.
Breath Allocation is a tense medical techno-thriller about institutional secrecy, automated triage, and the danger of allowing efficiency to decide whose survival matters.
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