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<blockquote data-quote="Jason Freeland" data-source="post: 4078550" data-attributes="member: 45827">When I was still practicing, I mainly ran vents on kids although I worked adults at various times in my career.&nbsp; I can see why some people might call them death machines, when dealing with adults, but kids were a little different.&nbsp; We generally got them off the vent and if we couldn&#039;t they went to Bethany Children&#039;s Center, where they could live on them.&nbsp; I remember watching one little girl in the PICU, learn to walk on a ventilator (her insurance wouldn&#039;t let her leave for some reason).&nbsp; She had seriously been there too long.&nbsp; All in all I spent about 20 years working critical care patients, everything from the tiniest premature baby to adult trauma.&nbsp; I was in 3 Critical Hours and 2 Trauma Life in the ERs, but the docs hogged all the screen time, you would see me in the background bagging usually.For the record my credentials are RRT-NPS (Registered Respiratory Therapist Neonatal Pediatric Specialist)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jason Freeland, post: 4078550, member: 45827"] When I was still practicing, I mainly ran vents on kids although I worked adults at various times in my career. I can see why some people might call them death machines, when dealing with adults, but kids were a little different. We generally got them off the vent and if we couldn't they went to Bethany Children's Center, where they could live on them. I remember watching one little girl in the PICU, learn to walk on a ventilator (her insurance wouldn't let her leave for some reason). She had seriously been there too long. All in all I spent about 20 years working critical care patients, everything from the tiniest premature baby to adult trauma. I was in 3 Critical Hours and 2 Trauma Life in the ERs, but the docs hogged all the screen time, you would see me in the background bagging usually. For the record my credentials are RRT-NPS (Registered Respiratory Therapist Neonatal Pediatric Specialist) [/QUOTE]

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