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Originally Posted by SupDock
This is the issue.
Italy has been asking retired doctors to unretire.
Keep in mind most healthcare providers cannot run a ventilator
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and they shouldn’t. One millimeter of pressure/ramp off and you can cause castrophic harm. Most go to school for a year. Then do a residency for another year in hospitals. Take boards. Get licsensed before they ever allow you to control the ventilator.
There isn’t RT’s sitting on their ass at home to call in. What we decided was that the RT’s would be at every emergency location running and making changes on the ventilators. We have more nurses than RT’s. The nurses would take care of some of the ancillary but crucial tasks that RT’s do beside run the ventilators.
suctioning out the fluid out of peoples lungs. Get the bloodwork. That would free up the RT’s to run and make changes on more ventilators.