What's a staffing?
Posted on 03/29/2020 7:05:53 PM PDT by conservative98
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has said the state needs 30,000 ventilators if hospitals gets swamped with critically ill COVID-19 patients under the worst-case scenario.
Yet there are only a total of 7,713 respiratory specialists licensed to operate the breathing machines in New York, plus an unknown number of highly skilled nurses and doctors trained to use them.
“I read that Gov. Cuomo said that ventilators are to coronavirus what missiles were to WWII. While I am sure this is true, you would not have grabbed a front-line soldier off the battlefield, put him in the fighter cockpit and expect him to fly the plane, launch the missiles and defeat the enemy,’’ said Anthony Everidge, a 30-year veteran respiratory specialist who now works in Nevada but is still licensed to operate in New York.
“The outcome would be disastrous and would only compound the problem. The analogy applies to ventilators and the successful operation and management of the mechanical ventilator,” he said.
Everidge, a member of the American Association of Respiratory Care, said he worries there will “not be enough” skilled respiratory therapists, doctors and nurses with knowledge to operate the ventilators based on the current number of licensed operators.
Ventilators help gravely ill patients breathe by pumping air and oxygen into the lungs through a tube put in the nose or mouth to reach the windpipe. The machine delivers more oxygen into the patient than any other method and also supplies pressure to keep the lungs open.
Cuomo has discussed the need to stockpile 30,000 ventilators if a crush of COVID-19 patients hits the hospitals system in the next 14 to 21 days. But he has spoken less about staffing the ventilators.
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Anyone know what the futures is doing?
Futures down ‘only’ 250 right now.
No ones said he had a plan to use all those ventilators he wanted, jut he needed them.
“I read that Gov. Cuomo said that ventilators are to coronavirus what missiles were to WWII. While I am sure this is true,....
How many machines can one person operate at the same time?
Governor Cuomo, so you don’t have the ventilators? Is that correct?
No, we have the ventilators but that doesn’t mean we are able to use them as they have not been moved into the position of being used from the current position they are held now.
What?! pic.twitter.com/xiJwIYIhki— 🇺🇸Lionel🇺🇸 (@LionelMedia) March 28, 2020
I guess Katyusha Rockets technically were missiles.
And some ppl are calling for this piece of work to run in 2020 for president 😮I hope those folks see this interview— KR (@texasrallygear) March 28, 2020
Will demonicRAT voters EVER realize they are being manipulated?
In 1968 we found them to rather a pain in the azz.
Exactly!
The sound of the Katyusha Rockets during WWII was such a beautiful sound, the sound of Nazis dying.
“I read that Gov. Cuomo said that ventilators are to coronavirus what missiles were to WWII.”
Did we have missiles in WW2, in significant numbers? I know we certainly had artillery...just don’t remember missiles.
According to the model Dr. Birx direct the nation to look at earlier today, New York is only short 4141 ventilators of the 10,000-12,000 needed on their worst days.
If anyone wonders why FL got 100% of what they asked for and other states didn’t, maybe it’s because they didn’t inflate their numbers.
It’s like they think Trump isn’t checking their homework. Idiots.
I think I’ve seen this show. Lucy has several patients on respirators but they keep adding more and more until she gets overloaded in the most madcap way possible. it was on black & white TV.
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