[blueplum]

posting this to bring attention to the claim that there are no ECMO machines, or techs who know how to use them, in the entire state.

Way to go, Biden.

[Tennessee Nana]

Interesting ... Alaska has a high % jabbed and they dont let anyone in unless they are jabbed ... Cant fly in cant cruise from Seattle unless you are FULLY jabbed...

So all the jabbed people are getting the Wu Hu Flu..

[BenLurkin]

Fifteen days to give the hospitals a chance to prepare for a surge, but the hospitals aren’t prepared 15 months later?

[goodnesswins]

Does this mean less people will be put on ventilators? Hhmmmm...maybe less people will die...?

[garandgal]

In a normal world, Alaska would be a perfect place to try some of the early treatment protocols. We would quickly see if they work. Which is why it won't be done.

[Repeal The 17th]

na·dir
/ˈnādər,ˈnādir/
noun
...the lowest point...

[ifinnegan]

It’s ludicrous. Numbers of cases and deaths make no sense.

[jonrick46]

"Central Peninsula recently had a patient who needed a high level of care, but all the facilities in Alaska that could have provided it were full. Health administrators started calling west coast hospitals, eventually finding a bed in Portland."

I hope this unfortunate patient will get well. I wonder what the air travel and special treatment is going to cost?

[Brian Griffin]

“ECMO stands for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. The ECMO machine is similar to the heart-lung by-pass machine used in open-heart surgery. It pumps and oxygenates a patient’s blood outside the body, allowing the heart and lungs to rest. When you are connected to an ECMO, blood flows through tubing to an artificial lung in the machine that adds oxygen and takes out carbon dioxide; then the blood is warmed to body temperature and pumped back into your body.”

https://www.ucsfhealth.org/treatments/extracorporeal-membrane-oxygenation

“USCF is also now using a smaller portable ECMO device that is light enough to be carried by one person and can be transported in an ambulance or helicopter, making it possible to provide ECMO relief in emergency cases.”

[Drago]

Very specialized/expensive device (not a type of “ventilator”...more like a heart/lung machine):

https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/ecmo/about/pac-20484615

https://khn.org/news/miracle-machine-makes-heroic-rescues-and-leaves-patients-in-limbo/

[roving]

Stop mandating the vaxx and people will stop quitting, which causes shortages.

[\/\/ayne]

[Singermom]

Think it is bad now, wait until all of the millions here illegally start receiving their FREE healthcare. Free to them, not to us.

This year they say biden will bring in 2 million illegals. Under the “Family Reunification Act” they each get to bring in an unlimited number of family members. Usually they bring in 10-12 each. That means that this year alone we get not just the 2 million but 22 million. And biden has more than 3 years to go.

I do not understand since, according to the libs, we are the most racist, and horrible country in the world. So much so that even the UN is going to tell us so. Why would so many want to come here? S/O

[Trinity5]

Well someone doesn’t know what they are talking about... ECMO machines in Alaska:

https://www.providence.org/about/initiatives/clinical-institutes/heart-institute/locations

https://d.facebook.com/LifeMedAlaska/photos/a.494495940640964/1761811937242685/?type=3&__tn__=EH-R

[RummyChick]

This one is interesting. Got the shot. Railed about getting the vaccine. Now dead after cardiologist admitted her Could be unrelated

Her name on twitter

Karen croake heisler

Yep..that is her name on twitter

[maddog55]

I highly doubt this.. More covid porn.

[Pollard]

Coast of PNW sounds like a good place for that hospital ship

[Drago]

“ECMO” (”Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation”) machine/procedures “explainer” video here:

https://youtu.be/hSyQ25UJ-FA