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Posted on 03/25/2020 11:19:07 AM PDT by mairdie
Supply of mechanical ventilators in U.S. acute care hospitals: Based on a 2009 survey of AHA hospitals, U.S. acute care hospitals are estimated to own approximately 62,000 full-featured mechanical ventilators.10,11 Approximately 46% of these can be used to ventilate pediatric and neonatal patients. Additionally, some hospitals keep older models for emergency purposes. Older models, which are not full featured but may provide basic functions, add an additional 98,738 ventilators to the U.S. supply.10 The older devices include 22,976 noninvasive ventilators, 32,668 automatic resuscitators, and 8567 continuous positive airway pressure units.
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PING to medical resources
A ten year old inventory??? How pathetic and useless. Every business in America has at least an annual inventory. This is the computer age, people.
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“A ten year old inventory??? How pathetic and useless. Every business in America has at least an annual inventory. This is the computer age, people.”
Be the first to mandate all sorts of medical outfits, under penalty of law, religiously, studiously, diligently without fail, on a standard regular basis, supply all the data that would make such reports accurate.
The fact is a large amount of this data is a result of totally voluntary reporting which includes voluntarily reporting some things and not reporting others.
When you pass that law, make sure you either taxpayer fund the reporting or realize patients will pay for it in higher patient costs or higher insurance premiums; the work will not be done for nothing.
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