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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“Yet there are only a total of 7,713 respiratory specialists licensed to operate the breathing machines in New York”
With all of the schools closed there won’t be many new ones.
If the New York hospitals ... and Cuomo ... talked to Doctors at Lennox Hill hospital, they wouldn’t need as many AND there would not be nearly the deaths. They have been using hydroxychloroquine for 10 days or so....few if any deaths with more than a 100 patients.
Here’s a governor doing it right.
Florida’s DeSantis: Shipments of drug hydroxychloroquine to help COVID-19 on way to Florida
Cuomo needs a ventilator.
But the sudden introduction of O2 to his brain for the first time could cause complications.
There are some hilarious replies on that twitter thread.
Fredo-1 is getting hammered!
In a military context, a rocket is an unguided, rocket-powered weapon, with no steering ability. A missile is a self-propelled weapon, often rocket-powered (but not always), that has some kind of guidance system so that it can steer in flight, towards its target.You are correct sir.
I think the machines are like a teenager’s sex drive - once you turn them on, they’re fully automatic...other than maybe a few adjustments...
Why hasn't he been planning for this? What have been the Governor's priorities?
You are correct sir.
Are these figures for NYC or the entire state?
Cuomo’s talking about shipping patients Upstate.
Albany has 3 spending priorities: the Reeducation Industrial Complex, Medicaid, public pensions and health bennies. NYS is $6+ bil in the hole, and there's still bupkis left for anything else.
I actually heard Cuomo say that about missiles in WWII and I wondered the same thing. He is a dumb Drama Queen.
Lol! I can actually see the ventilators on a conveyor belt coming at Cuomo faster and faster.
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