World's best health care system will be no better than socialized healthcare

[winnipegjets]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03/15/coronavirus-rationing-us/

Spiking U.S. coronavirus cases could force rationing decisions similar to those made in Italy, China
Elderly, end-stage cancer patients might get lower priority for ventilators under some state pandemic plans.

A 2005 federal government report estimated that in the event of a pandemic like the 1918 flu, we would need mechanical ventilators for 740,000 patients. Currently 160,000 ventilators are available for patient care, with at least an another 8,900 in the national stockpile, according to a February estimate by the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins

 

[sweetiepie]

KNN can people use manual hand pumping ventilator to safe their loved ones if run out of ventilators KNN

 

[sweetiepie]

KNN can people use manual hand pumping ventilator to safe their loved ones if run out of ventilators KNN

A bag valve mask (BVM), sometimes known by the proprietary name Ambu bag or generically as a manual resuscitator or "self-inflating bag", is a hand-held device commonly used to provide positive pressure ventilation to patients who are not breathing or not breathing adequately. The device is a required part of resuscitation kits for trained professionals in out-of-hospital settings (such as ambulance crews) and is also frequently used in hospitals as part of standard equipment found on a crash cart, in emergency rooms or other critical care settings. Underscoring the frequency and prominence of BVM use in the United States, the American Heart Association (AHA) Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiac Care recommend that "all healthcare providers should be familiar with the use of the bag-mask device."[1] Manual resuscitators are also used within the hospital for temporary ventilation of patients dependent on mechanical ventilators when the mechanical ventilator needs to be examined for possible malfunction or when ventilator-dependent patients are transported within the hospital. Two principal types of manual resuscitators exist; one version is self-filling with air, although additional oxygen (O2) can be added but is not necessary for the device to function. The other principal type of manual resuscitator (flow-inflation) is heavily used in non-emergency applications in the operating room to ventilate patients during anesthesia induction and recovery.

 

[syed putra]

Those needing ventilators with terminal disease are gone case already. Why prolong the agony.