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Posted in ChitCaht; How Many Ventilators can a Tech manage at one time?at a time?
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| 3/30/20
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Posted on 03/30/2020 11:38:23 AM PDT by NoLibZone
How many ventilators can an Inhalation Therapist manage in a shift?
Thank you.
TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: caht; coronavanity; postedinchat
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I posted the question in Chit Chat get off my back!
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posted on
03/30/2020 11:38:23 AM PDT
by
NoLibZone
To: NoLibZone
It depends on whether they will let the doctors touch them.
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posted on
03/30/2020 11:39:57 AM PDT
by
wastoute
(Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
To: NoLibZone
Great question.
Is it a set it and forget it?
Or once set up can a lesser skilled person monitor it and ask for help as needed?
To: NoLibZone
Addendum question: How many minutes would it take to train a medical school student to manage one, under supervision, if the supply of ventilators would exceed the supply of Inhalation Therapists?
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posted on
03/30/2020 11:53:01 AM PDT
by
Wissa
("Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult." - Michael Corleone)
To: NoLibZone
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posted on
03/30/2020 11:53:32 AM PDT
by
HippyLoggerBiker
(Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.)
To: NoLibZone
That is something that engineers are trying to design, ventilators that laymen can operate. They would also have to waive liability laws so hospitals can run the ventilators without using the certified technicians.
To: NoLibZone
How many ventilators could a Vent Tech check if a Vent Tech could check Vents?...............
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posted on
03/30/2020 12:03:33 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If people were to God like dogs are to people, the world would be a really great place..............)
To: Red Badger
“Hey you dang Vent Techs, quit checking my vents!”
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posted on
03/30/2020 12:04:44 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator
You could save a ton of money by switching to GEICO!................
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posted on
03/30/2020 12:05:33 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If people were to God like dogs are to people, the world would be a really great place..............)
To: wastoute
They need assistance from exhalation specialists.
A respiratory therapist usually sets them up and they share the monitoring with a nurse. A doctor will be usually put in the breathing tube but paramedics are trained to intubate patients as well. They can be difficult to manage because patients will “buck” against the machine if they are not sedated. There are may things to watch, pressure, volume, rate, humidity and patient size and distress will shift the parameters
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posted on
03/30/2020 12:09:34 PM PDT
by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
To: wastoute
It depends on whether they will let the doctors touch them. The ventilator or the therapist?
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posted on
03/30/2020 12:10:34 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
To: PapaBear3625
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posted on
03/30/2020 12:19:00 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
"That is something that engineers are trying to design, ventilators that laymen can operate. They would also have to waive liability laws so hospitals can run the ventilators without using the certified technicians."
Basically the same thing with portable defibulators. We had them on the inmate housing units in NY State prisons, along with hand respirators when I retired in 2003.
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posted on
03/30/2020 12:32:10 PM PDT
by
mass55th
("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
03/30/2020 12:33:28 PM PDT
by
mass55th
("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
To: outofsalt
How often do those tubes have to be cleaned? I remember not long ago some cases of a certain fungus causing deaths in patients in NY City because the tubes on their ventilators weren’t kept properly cleaned. The article even talked about CPAC machines, and the necessity of regularly cleaning the tubes.
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posted on
03/30/2020 12:36:37 PM PDT
by
mass55th
("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
03/30/2020 12:48:04 PM PDT
by
griswold3
(Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
To: NoLibZone
There are such things as home ventilators.
Respiratory medicine is not something I have management skills in.
To: Red Badger
“if a Vent Tech could check Vents?.”
Badgers are like vicious woodchucks...
Some of your kin must have solved this old problem?
It’s not like Fermat’s conjecture or something.
To: DUMBGRUNT
It’s s FIBonacci Series!...................
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posted on
03/30/2020 12:55:31 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If people were to God like dogs are to people, the world would be a really great place..............)
To: Red Badger
When I vent you’ll know it by the fine light aroma.
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posted on
03/30/2020 1:00:09 PM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
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