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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
Thats a total BS story. We shouldn't be scaring people from using their CPAP or inhalers.
CPAP just blows air into your lungs. Same air that's already in the patients lungs and in the ambient air. Nursing home patient is already inhaling and exhaling that air, no different from us. But, without CPAP, no stage III sleep, a compromised elderly patient in a nursing home could die in days.
Now, if you dont clean the CPAP tubing, you can get all kinds of bugs in it that will cause you to get infections. But that true with all the Planeteers on here using CPAP too. If they are confirmed to have the virus, just treat it as an infected area.
Nebulizers are used by people with COPD and Asthma to breathe in medicine that has been broken down into a mist that it crosses over into your blood stream faster. The patient gets more relief faster. Again, the patient is exhaling their own air anyway.
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Here is the story. The quote I referenced was from a first responder:
https://www.kuow.org/stories/the-day...er-in-kirkland
Still don’t know if it is BS (but I take your word that it is).