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Music - this will blow your mind !
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26 Feb 2008 Tue 04:16 pm |
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Happy to say my mind is still intact! But cool!
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26 Feb 2008 Tue 05:00 pm |
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Actually, it says that they did not have the equipment to monitor the amount of oxygen that was administered. It probably was not in use in 1980. Not related to malpractice more like no equipment available in those years.
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26 Feb 2008 Tue 05:01 pm |
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Quoting Elisabeth: Happy to say my mind is still intact! But cool! |
Did you watch the full 50 minutes or just the first 10 min clip ?
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26 Feb 2008 Tue 05:40 pm |
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Quoting Cacık: Actually, it says that they did not have the equipment to monitor the amount of oxygen that was administered. It probably was not in use in 1980. Not related to malpractice more like no equipment available in those years. |
That is very highly unlikely. I couldn't find the exact information about when monitors where introduced, but here's some info about ventilators. Of course they must have had a monitoring system. 
"The iron lung, also known as the Drinker and Shaw tank, was developed in 1929 and was one of the first negative-pressure machines used for long-term ventilation. It was refined and used in the 20th century largely as a result of the polio epidemic that struck the world in the 1950s."
Wikipedia
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26 Feb 2008 Tue 06:26 pm |
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Quoting catwoman: Quoting Cacık: Actually, it says that they did not have the equipment to monitor the amount of oxygen that was administered. It probably was not in use in 1980. Not related to malpractice more like no equipment available in those years. |
That is very highly unlikely. I couldn't find the exact information about when monitors where introduced, but here's some info about ventilators. Of course they must have had a monitoring system.
"The iron lung, also known as the Drinker and Shaw tank, was developed in 1929 and was one of the first negative-pressure machines used for long-term ventilation. It was refined and used in the 20th century largely as a result of the polio epidemic that struck the world in the 1950s."
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I think it could be the fact that he was born at 26 weeks and in 1980, extremely few babies even survived that alone ! An iron lung, I assume, could not be used on a baby that is smaller than a adult human hand and weighing only 1.5 pounds. Not only that, an iron mask is a concealed iron chamber with the body inside, and the head exposed to the outside air with a seal around the neck. This baby was wired up to multiple drips, machines and monitors that you would not be able to access in an iron lung. An iron lung also does not feed oxygen directly into the lungs, patients breathe on the their own accord. A 26 week premature baby would not survive even if it could use an iron lung. I am not a doctor, but having read the iron lung info, it seems logically not possible.
I don't think that this can be related to malpractice and one must consider than technology that has advanced in 28 years. Things were seriously different back then.
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26 Feb 2008 Tue 06:30 pm |
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Quoting Cacık: Did you watch the full 50 minutes? |
Yes I did! Very interesting indeed!
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26 Feb 2008 Tue 06:38 pm |
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Thank you very much.
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27 Feb 2008 Wed 08:05 pm |
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many things could be said...
thank you.
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That's a fantastic universal healthcare!!! 
