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This is a "Ventilator"
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Posted on 03/28/2020 10:08:15 PM PDT by Species8472

This is a "ventilator. They get about $200 bucks each for them. There are millions of these in hospitals, ambulances and clinics. Only drawback is that it requires someone to squeeze the bag...….



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To: Species8472

One of the problems is that these type of ventilators do not maintain a constant air pressure, this causing the alveoli to collapse. This breaks down the alveoli cell wall and increases the fluid blocking O2 transfer.

A CPAP, or constant pressure device maintains the pressure and functions on a differential wave to provide respiration. This constant pressure stops the alveoli from collapsing on zero or negative pressure.

This is also why the probe position decreased the death rate by approximately 16%.


61 posted on 03/29/2020 4:02:28 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: wastoute

Tuesday, parenthetically, I underwent a hip replacement surgery. They gave me a spinal and a sedative, and stuck what felt like a nebulizer face mask over my nose and mouth. All the racket of power screwing and whacking my hip with a hammer and chisel kept waking me up, and I had to manually keep the mask from cutting into my eye, ‘cause it kept getting knocked askew by the vibrations. Both my legs, however, were completely numb throughout.

Bizarrely, this was all done by a top flight orthopedic surgeon and an equally good anesthesiologist, with a department head supervising, and I’m fine, other than the pain and stiffness. Came home Thursday. It would make a great comedy sketch.


62 posted on 03/29/2020 4:02:30 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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To: tired&retired

A modified CPAP would work far better.


63 posted on 03/29/2020 4:04:07 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

Death with this virus is caused similar to SARS in that the ACE2 receptors deep in the lungs atrophy receptive to the spikes on the virus. This causes the inflammation that kills.


64 posted on 03/29/2020 4:07:32 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Species8472

We called them “bag masks”


65 posted on 03/29/2020 4:07:56 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: Species8472
You can use that one if you want, but the rest of us would refer this one:

66 posted on 03/29/2020 4:27:16 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Species8472

That device is a ventilator in the same fleeting sense that an umbrella is a shelter.


67 posted on 03/29/2020 4:34:42 AM PDT by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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To: Eleutheria5

You must live somewhere the healthcare system is still able to do “something else”. Be grateful.


68 posted on 03/29/2020 4:34:43 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Species8472

If this is the case, I might be able to use my blowdryer in the ‘cool’ setting if I need air, no?


69 posted on 03/29/2020 4:40:35 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (A Realistically Really Real Housewife)
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To: Species8472
They get about $200 bucks each for them.

For some pieces of PLASTIC???


70 posted on 03/29/2020 4:59:25 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: rfp1234
Where does the exhaled CO2 go?

Straight into Global Warming!

Let 'em DIE!!!!


71 posted on 03/29/2020 5:00:59 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: monkeyshine

I seem to recall something about airfilters and a space flight


72 posted on 03/29/2020 5:03:18 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: dila813

After this is all over; America will be treated with a Neuralizer; and we’ll just forget all the unpleasantries and freedoms we lost.


73 posted on 03/29/2020 5:05:05 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: roadcat

Aquarium air pump?


74 posted on 03/29/2020 5:05:57 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Bobalu
An automated ventilator is only moderately complex...it needs great instrumentation though and several fail-safe systems to make it safe.

There's an app for that!

75 posted on 03/29/2020 5:07:41 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: HollyB
And who is going to squeeze it 24 hours a day?


76 posted on 03/29/2020 5:10:23 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Eleutheria5
It would make a great comedy sketch.
77 posted on 03/29/2020 5:17:15 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Species8472
"Only drawback is that it requires someone to squeeze the bag...…. "

A doctor at the University of Minnesota has already developed mechanical bag squeezer for you.

78 posted on 03/29/2020 5:19:27 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Calm down and enjoy the ride, great things are happening for our country)
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To: Species8472

Serious question: Is a ventilator the same as a respirator?


79 posted on 03/29/2020 5:20:45 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ( For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.)
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To: Species8472

This is a "Ventilator"

Oh! I thought it was a breathalyzer!


80 posted on 03/29/2020 5:37:10 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Hillary Clinton: Just like Joe with only half the dementia.)
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