Re: Potential Life Saving Procedures



Salty wrote:

Alan Street wrote:


Salty <babette7401@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
€ Lemme see here.  In case of emergency....
€ 1. If I'm at home, they should know who I am.
€ 2. If I'm in my car, they should know who I am.  I have ID in my car at
€ all times so even if, for some bizarre reason, I don't have my picture
€ driver's license, they still can get my insurance card and owner's card
€ out of the glove box.



The issue isn't figuring out who you are, the issue is knowing who to
call for permission to turn off the respirator ;-)



Alan, I love ya... but....

1. "Respirator" is a term for a machine that takes the surrounding air
and purifies it. Firemen wear a respirator. Patients do not.  Patients
in need of breathing assistance wear a "Ventilator",  not a respirator.
(Yes some wear C-pap or bi-pap but that's another matter and still not
a respirator.)  Sorry to be 'picky-une' but I've worked with vent
patients and I'm tired of hearing the news media screw up the terms all
the time.

Actually "firemen" wear SCBA's. I have never heard them referred to as "respirators". I have heard them called "Scott Packs" (named after the company that makes them) but mostly they are called "air packs". And as long as I am in "picky" mode, many years ago, I referred to a firefighter as a "fireman". I was told, "Firemen stoke boilers. Firefighters fight fires".
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