Posted on 03/27/2020 1:41:16 PM PDT by Zenyatta
President Donald Trump is demanding General Motors start manufacturing desperately needed ventilators 'NOW' – after a stunning report his administration stalled a potential deal over the cost.
After sustaining weeks of questions and criticisms about why his administration hadn't demanded rush orders for medical equipment weeks ago, Trump took to Twitter to demand GM get on the task 'FAST.' He even demanded they reopen a shuttered Ohio plant – even though the company has already put forward a proposal to start assembly at a plant in Indiana.
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2 yr Associate Degree program at a trade school
2-3 years of training?? Ridiculous. We’re not talking about a rocket ship.
If I come out of the hospital after being on a GM ventilator and sound like this I’d be happy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_FSicQWimU
COVID-19 will be over before GM is up to speed building these things.
Would rather have a Mopar respirator. Never was much of a bow tie guy.
So let’s get this straight. A trained operator tells me to push button A and check on the patient every 15 minutes, gives me responsibility for 5 patients then they go out to train someone else. You think that the patient would be better off with no ventilator at all?
The lack of trained respiratory therapists should be solved by the use of robots. They would not get sick from exposure to disease, would not need sleep, can be set with the required parameters and can perform tasks perfectly thousands of times. We should be using the millions of dollars wasted by the CDC on kooky studies (What makes gays gain weight) to develop medical robots that can perform in hospital settings.
GM sold the plant, the new owners plan to make electric trucks.
Andrew Cuomo will just order the training programs to double their graduates. And then double the number again. And then do it a month. Easy. Just give the order, and shoot a few wreckers to motivate the rest.
But it does.
Patients are sedated and must be monitored at frequent intervals 7x24 or they die. Learning what to watch for and what to adjust takes a long time. And it is a 3-shift operation.
United States and Canada
In the United States and Canada, Respiratory Therapists are healthcare practitioners who, after receiving at least an Associate of Science in Respiratory Care, complete a credentialing process.
After satisfactorily completing the required examinations and being added to a registry, the practitioner is then eligible to apply for a license to practice in the region governed by their respective licensing body.
In the United States, specialist Respiratory Therapists are clinicians who hold National Board for Respiratory Care specialty credentials, which may include neonatal/pediatric specialist (CRT-NPS or RRT-NPS), adult critical care specialist (RRT-ACCS), sleep disorder specialist (CRT-SDS or RRT-SDS), and pulmonary function technologist (CPFT or RPFT). The NBRC’s RRT-ACCS examination is the newest NBRC examination: it was introduced in 2012.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respiratory_therapist#United_States_and_Canada
I would find it difficult to trust a Chevy ventilator. ;)
Will medical workers have to slam the doors on those General Motors ventilators to get them closed?
Same question to you then. A hospital is in a state of emergency. Staff is overwhelmed and many are getting sick themselves. Are the sick patients better off with hastily trained volunteers or no ventilators at all?
That would depend on how rich the hospital is or how good their liability insurance is for when they get sued if someone dies under the care of an untrained or poorly trained technician.
Experienced and aggressive attorneys are waiting to take your call. 1-888-BADVENT
When I was in the Navy they lined us up and gave us a Swine flu vaccine that had been put together in haste. The companies that developed it did so with the understanding they couldn’t be held liable if anything went wrong. So to me it sounds like if they wanted to they could release hospitals from liability if they wanted to.
When I was in the Navy they lined us up and gave us a Swine flu vaccine that had been put together in haste.
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Well, guess ‘we’ were just ‘guinea pigs’....(REMEMBER the pics from post WWII atomic tests and the sailors on the decks of ships were instructed to roll down their cuffs and button shirts at the neck and TURN AWAY from the blast??
As bad as being told to hide under your flimsy school desk in case of nuclear attack.
In 1956 I had a hernia operation at USNH Yokosuka and I was given a ‘spinal’.....My mother and family (MOST RN’s) were ‘upset’ that was the method.
The military and the private sector operate under different rules. Perhaps public hospitals could wave liability but I doubt it.
The respiratory therapists required to run them need 2-3 years of training. Each.
Then, don't make them.
Feel better?
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