This is a "Ventilator"

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[Species8472]

This is a "ventilator. They get about $200 bucks each for them. There are millions of these in hospitals, ambulances and clinics. Only drawback is that it requires someone to squeeze the bag...….

[polymuser]

And this is a snowblower...

[Vermont Lt]

So for every patient you need someone squeezing the tube , all day for 20 days.

We better start making shovels.

[americas.best.days...]

Generally speaking, yes. It is a machine that controls breathing for the patient via an endotracheal tube. You control the pressure, rate of breaths, oxygen content and a few other things with it. To get everything right, you need to obtain occasional chest stays and blood gasses to get the settings right.

Some confusion comes as the N95 masks, the round fitted type, are referred to as respirators. But it’s just a higher filtration mask.

[Vermont Lt]

They would need replaced tubing, but are not one-time-use.

[central_va]

Ventilator, circa 1932:

[Vermont Lt]

Yeah, try that on a frail old lady. It would blow the side out her lungs. You might as well use a Ruger.

[Vermont Lt]

We will start on your relatives. I really hope your joking. If you are serious, there is really something missing in your education.

[Vermont Lt]

If you kept waking up because of sounds...you did not have a great anesthesiologist.

[SamAdams76]

This is a computer:

[HollyB]

<3 <3. That’s sweet. <3 <3

[HollyB]

Are you sure it’s not an ‘inhalator’ ? Lol

[gas_dr]

Also known as the Armstrong ventilator 🤣

[calico_thompson]

Grad sudents at Rice University in Houston have developed a way to squeeze the bag automatically.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200327/Rice-University-and-Metric-Technologies-develop-ventilator-costing-less-than-24300.aspx

[logi_cal869]

It was late. That was basically my point with the URL but I did not elaborate.

[JimRed]

You literally have to have at least a 1:1 staff:patient ratio to use them, and that only for a short time.

Or a patient with sufficient strength and awareness to squeeze his own. While awake, of course.

[GingisK]

Unless she is someone who cares about you, will she keep squeezing the bag?

[Eleutheria5]

It was a local anesthesia, just spinal.

[Eleutheria5]

Israel, outskirts of Jerusalem.

[Eleutheria5]

Big Bill Thompson will ventilate yez for free.

[Eleutheria5]

Also, it wasn’t sounds. It was like being a sidewalk and getting excavated.