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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who does operate this, a patient? A first responder? A nurse? ..[/quote]

National guard. [/quote]

Ok crazy question I know but could these be used at home?[/quote]

Theoretically, yes, but I wouldn’t pin my hopes on that.[/quote]

No my hopes are pinned on[b] a plush private ICU room at GW[/b] with well rested attendings, up-to-date med students and experienced nurses.

But seeing how other places are faring, I doubt that's in the cards, so as a family of asthmatics with a compromised infant, we may soon be reaching for the proverbial straws...[/quote]

Not all bad..
Cheer up.. even if you got there it could have been a very short trip..
Officials at George Washington University Hospital in the District say they ... of imposing a do-not-resuscitate order on [b]every coronavirus patient.[/b]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03/25/coronavirus-patients-do-not-resucitate/[/quote]

It says they are going to be doing a modified procedure. It does seem like once you are flat lining from CV, reviving is unlikely to work... But I would still not want to by lying around with a DNR on my chest until iz was clear i was on the way out.[/quote]

The CV is tricky. It put GIGANTIC strain on lungs, hearts, kidneys.. and it is not that hard to have a heart problems in it at any age. Therefore if your heart would struggle and they call it quits you are cooked. [b]Even if you could have easily live more just by restarting it.[/b] If they go umbrella DNR.. that would be a death sentence at any age in any situation.[/quote]

The COVID-19 at that level is the death sentence.

There is 0% rate of CPR helping, worldwide, if you are a COVID-19 patient on a ventilator. And you can't shock someone without a rhythm -- you have to do CPR. And it never has worked, PP.

The death sentence isn't from not doing CPR. [/quote]

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