Authors:
Thomas Holzman
During the Gulf War, a Navy hospital ship was told in advance that multiple patients with serious respiratory problems would be arriving. Consequently, the crew moved ventilators close to the ship's helicopter landing pad, saving approximately 10 minutes in hooking them up to the patients and making the difference between life and death for some of them. Alternatively, a hospital can delay surgery on someone who does not require immediate treatment if it knows that an patient en route has an immediate life-threatening problem (e.g., severe hemorrhaging or heart attack) that will require the remaining operating room. When patients…
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