Posted on 04/14/2020 6:43:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It is well known that ventilators can cause problems all by themselves with over/under pressure or over/under volume settings. The requirements of those settings tend to change with a patient. The machines are made to sense what the patient is doing with his own breathing and compensate for that.
The reason someone is on one of those machines in the first place is they would be dead without it. People really need to understand that. Prior to the machines, they just let the patient die. Pick you poison.
They are pretty careful to filter the air or use oxygen from cylinders. It is a lot better air than the rest of the people in the room breathe.
They are already in critical condition by the time they are put on a ventilator.
Ventilators: Isn’t that what Dracula’s do?.
My son was on a ventilator twice in the last few years. Both times they said he had very little chance of survival. Without the ventilators he would not have made it since he could barely breath on his own.
I did a lot of reading in the past few weeks, with the goal of being able to make one if needed. It is a complicated machine. I could probably make one, but it would be a tough job. I can handle the software a lot easier than the mechanical aspects. It is pretty easy to damage lungs with such a machine.
Many here think a C-Pap machine will do the same job. They won't.
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