FYI on the use of ventilators and how stupid everyone is being

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gets used a very few times a year and most hospitals go years without using the one and only one they have.

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May I ask what you are basing this on?

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ventilators are a rarely, very very rarely used medical machine that gets used a very few times a year and most hospitals go years without using the one and only one they have.

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And there’s no smokers in the US either.

Conversation with my wife over the last minute:

Me how often do they use vents in the hospital

Her all the time

Me reads your post

Her he is a moron


But she is just a CT surgeon so what does she know.


ETA she was not suggesting a vent is needed for every person just that multiple vents are used every day in any decent-sized hospital

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ventilators are a rarely, very very rarely used medical machine that gets used a very few times a year and most hospitals go years without using the one and only one they have.

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You could not be more wrong. Anytime a patient is put under into deep anesthesia they use a ventilator. The patient will have said a ventilator until they wake up from the surgery.

IDK what 3rd world cattle hospital you are used to but that is standard procedure in all modern hospital wards that see 100's of thousands of surgeries and procedures that involve patients on ventilators every year.

Hahaha.... I don't know how often ventilators are used in reality, and I am in medical. Because I don't know though, I will also not post as if I do.



Stay Thirsty friends!

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she is just a CT surgeon

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That watch collection makes a whole lot more sense now.


But on a related note, essentially every surgery requires a ventilator. So any hospital capable of doing surgery uses them on close to a weekly basis.




A search of "ICU to ventilator ratio ncbi" (side note, add "ncbi" to any search to get scientific journal publications instead of tabloid publications) shows that we have roughly 1 (0.96 I think it said) vent per ICU bed.

It also shows that 29% (+/- 14%) of ICU patients are ventilated at any given time. This includes "elective" procedure admissions where any case that could be postponed for lack of ICU bed is considered "elective." 29 seems a bit high, but there's a wide margin of error and this is ~100 hospitals surveyed.

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ETA she was not suggesting a vent is needed for every person just that multiple vents are used every day in any decent-sized hospital

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got it, so you are just being a troll while she agrees with my post but points out they have more then one ventilator per hospital

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got it, so you are just being a troll while she agrees with my post but points out they have more then one ventilator per hospital

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You are frickin' ignorant as shite about what you are trying to talk about. First, you are a slimy little cock smoker because you tried to come back in an edit you post when it was clear you were way off. The problem is you are still wrong. Go to any regional medical center and you will find multiple vents being used in almost every one of their different critical care units at any given time. They aren't some machine in the basement they have to dust off for use. You were just talking out of your arse.

She certainly wasn't suggesting we need a vent for every human in the US, that's stupid and nobody said that. I didn't attack your hyperbole because it was just that.

Bottom line you didn't know what you were talking about.

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You think most hospitals only have 1 ventilator?

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He must have hyperbaric chambers and ventilators confused. Lol

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He must have hyperbaric chambers and ventilators confused. Lol

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Or he only goes to the hospitals in Mexico.