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11-28-2011, 02:19 PM
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Re: Power Failure Kills U.S Woman After 50 Years in Iron Lung.
I thought polio was curable. I wonder if her parents tried when she was a toddler.
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#82
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11-28-2011, 08:30 PM
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Re: Power Failure Kills U.S Woman After 50 Years in Iron Lung.
Good read! They had all that time to prepare for a power failure, even had a generator on hand. Big Failed!
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#83
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11-29-2011, 07:37 AM
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Re: Power Failure Kills U.S Woman After 50 Years in Iron Lung.
good point actually. I could of swore that things like iron lungs etc would have back up generators or something  |
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11-29-2011, 08:28 AM
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Re: Power Failure Kills U.S Woman After 50 Years in Iron Lung.
Just wondering how many of you have had the experience of being intubated with a ventilator? Assuming you're not sedated, I'm sure you'd probably opt for something like this. I can't imagine anyone being intubated for years. I too don't understand why there wasn't a redundant power system. I can only imagine all of the expensive, specialized maintainance that an obsolete medical device like this would require and no doubt they must have had another nearby in the case of a failure. How they didn't factor in multiple levels of power redundancy is beyond me. Furthermore most first responder units here in the states have means of generating 110 & single and three phase 220V and the means the distribute it. There has to be more to this story then simple power failure. |
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11-30-2011, 10:07 AM
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Re: Power Failure Kills U.S Woman After 50 Years in Iron Lung.
Well, that's 50 more years more than she would have otherwise had. Energizer Bunny has to give up eventually.
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12-01-2011, 02:22 PM
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Re: Power Failure Kills U.S Woman After 50 Years in Iron Lung.
I wouldn't want to keep on after I was old enough to know what my life was going to be like. Then again....it was the ONLY life she knew......that WAS normal for her.
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12-01-2011, 02:46 PM
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Re: Power Failure Kills U.S Woman After 50 Years in Iron Lung.
What a load of total bull shit! I noticed that whenever I pulled out the plug on my drip in hospital recently it just went straight onto battery power (this was so I could go to the toilet!) so I doubt VERY much there was no battery back up on this machine!  |
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12-01-2011, 03:08 PM
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Re: Power Failure Kills U.S Woman After 50 Years in Iron Lung.
Good God, I had no idea these things were still in use! How the heck did she bathe?
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12-02-2011, 03:20 AM
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Re: Power Failure Kills U.S Woman After 50 Years in Iron Lung.
you'd think after 50 years they'd have the "power interruption contingency plans" ironed out better. like say, two generators, instead of one...? or a bank of old car batteries?
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