Re: [VENT-L] Teaching
Dan Vachon (drv(AT)ici.net)
Thu, 09 Jul 1998 21:38:57
At 08:11 PM 7/9/98 -0500, Valerie Brew-Parrish wrote:
>The wrong treatment
>can kill you. Many polio survivors who were in iron-lungs & have
>respiratory problems shouldn't be given oxygen. Yet, they don't know this
>and worst of all the doctors and most pulmonologists don't know it.
Val,
Why shouldn't us old iron lung and/or vent users have oxygen? What does it
do to us?
Dan, who probably shouldn't take oxygen with his beer.