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This is almost becoming too much to respond to everyone in this thread saying this. The problem is not the machine. It is the human labor involved in maintaini
by Zenzero 2y ago
This is almost becoming too much to respond to everyone in this thread saying this.
The problem is not the machine. It is the human labor involved in maintaining operation of that machine. Vents are also labor intensive. You can't just intubate a patient and push the on button.
The problem is quite literally that it takes time and effort from a limited group of people. Do you allow new admits to die because your staff is consumed with maintaining people indefinitely on ECMO?
- iancmceachern 2y agoI know, I design these things. What I'm saying is that in the 70s, when dialysis started, with those reusable parallel plate dialyzers, that assisting someone with dialysis was a full time job for a person. Now, because of advancements in dialysis machines, a single person can care for a whole clinic. We can do the same thing for ECMO.