McNadoMDIn light of the blackouts in Cuba, US threats to stop power in Iran, Israeli strikes on Lebanon, and Russian strikes on Ukraine’s power grid, I will remind everyone that trying manually ventilate patients who can’t breathe for themselves is exhausting, technically challenging, and often fatally inadequate. It is very hard to sit there manually delivering 6 cc/kg of air with the right pressure, inspiratory time, and expiratory time, over and over again, for hours.
Keeper of the orb@mcnado i remember hearing abt the hospital that wasnt evacd during hurricane katrina having staff doing this in shifts. is horrifying. its absurd. the staff that rise to it are heroic but they shouldnt have to be. im so tired.