Indications for placing a person on ventilator?!
Question: Indications for placing a person on ventilator.?
Does it varies from country to country.?Health Question & Answer
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Advance life support is indicated when there is no brain damage along with multi organs damage.
In case of young patients mostly in accidents, chance is taken, and it really works.
In respiratory disease when the muscles becomes fatigued, than placing on the vent, is advisable.
in older patients after assessment he can be placed on vent. support.
The criteria is to minimizee disability is one of the strong recommendation. Consider it as an artificial lung.
In other conteries there are restrictions e.g. after 60 years of age they avoid ventilators.
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In case of young patients mostly in accidents, chance is taken, and it really works.
In respiratory disease when the muscles becomes fatigued, than placing on the vent, is advisable.
in older patients after assessment he can be placed on vent. support.
The criteria is to minimizee disability is one of the strong recommendation. Consider it as an artificial lung.
In other conteries there are restrictions e.g. after 60 years of age they avoid ventilators.
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Well medically speaking the indications are indications, what country you're in should not make a difference.
Now having said that one has to realise that all countries are no like the US. Here if a hospital comes close to running out of ventilators, automatically the system will order temporary ones to be shipped or will borrow from a close by hospital
In other countries including Europe, thats not always the case. In briton for example they can refuse to put someone on a vent just ebcasue of age etc.
Medically the Indications are very straightforwars and all involve Respitory Failuire one way or anotherHealth Question & Answer
Now having said that one has to realise that all countries are no like the US. Here if a hospital comes close to running out of ventilators, automatically the system will order temporary ones to be shipped or will borrow from a close by hospital
In other countries including Europe, thats not always the case. In briton for example they can refuse to put someone on a vent just ebcasue of age etc.
Medically the Indications are very straightforwars and all involve Respitory Failuire one way or anotherHealth Question & Answer