Posted on 12/16/2020 9:02:36 PM PST by rintintin
Michael Savage @ASavageNation HEY DUMB LIBERAL POLS WHY DON'T YOU INCREASE ICU CAPACITY INSTEAD OF DESTROYING JOBS AND BUSINESSES? INCREASE ICU CAPACITY NOW!
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Because fear elects Democrats?
icu’s are not overflowing
a story posted on here in the last wekk talked about hospital capacities, they are on average 70-75% full, icu’s are about 80%
hospital admin was saying profitable hospitals tically run 85% capacity or so
so they have plenty of room right now
So do Chinese voting machines.
Democrats want control. This is their opportunity. Nothing more.
Yeah...that’s hilarious.
You can turn almost any room into an ICU room. What you CANT get is more nurses and respiratory therapists. Those you cannot just pick up in an ICU r US.
Everything is so simple.
Indeed. We should always ask what percentage of the ICU patients are COVID related.
because the biggest part of increasing a ICU capacity is staffing highly trained and skilled nurses to card for the patients? You can’t find those under a rock somewhere
Last time they set up MASH units nobody showed up.
It is because their goal is to destroy jobs and businesses. It is that simple.
How about keeping patients out of the ICUs by promoting early/outpatient treatment with Ivermectin or HCQ + zinc or all three?
Not everywhere. It varies by location. While easing finally in our area almost every hospital capable of physically doing so has opened extra ICU space. Along with this they are stretching traditional staffing models and giving ICU nurses twice the number of patients (or more) than they would usually care for. The stress on the system is real
Michael will be gone-good riddance.
We’ve heard similar from a Houston Med Ctr ER nurse friend.
She said ICU capacity is actually lower than it was, in May, and about the same as this time, last year.
They’re lying about a lot of these numbers, I think.
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Why will Michael be gone?
Do you mean from Twitter?
[You can turn almost any room into an ICU room. What you CANT get is more nurses and respiratory therapists. Those you cannot just pick up in an ICU r US.]
It takes a special skill set to care for a patient on 5 or 6 IV drips, a ventilator, often a dialysis machine and multiple monitors and pumps. Besides operating the technology the nurses need to have assessment skills to understand when things are going south with patients who frequently cannot communicate or even respond. They are amazing individuals with a lot of training. That cannot be replicated overnight
I was in the hospital a couple of days ago: KECK which is the University of California at Los Angeles hospital. IOW: USC’s hospital. Not busy that I could see. I hope it remains that way.
Good hospital. I have 2 appointments at Cedars Sinai next week .... but they’ve been on lockdown. I was there last week and it was empty.
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