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Why should high tech medical care be inexpensive? Babies in state of the art NICUs; artificial hearts with a pocket sized portable pump; organ transplants; vaccines that help prevent cervical cancer; gene profiling to tailor cancer treatments to the
Happens all the time.
You have parents, who want the day care their children go to, to only hire people with graduate degrees in child services, etc
But then want to pay them minimum wage to watch their children.
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The Methodist Hospital Only in U.S. to Offer Life-Sustaining, Portable Heart ...
Newswise — The Methodist Hospital is the first in the U.S. to use a portable heart/lung machine to move critically ill patients easily and safely to different areas of the hospital for medical tests or from outlying hospitals to the medical center for specialized treatment. Recently approved for use in the U.S. by the FDA, the device has been used in Europe since 2008 with excellent results.
“With this new device, we will never have to say that a patient is too sick to move,“ said Dr. Matthias Loebe, transplant surgeon at The Methodist Hospital. “This machine will enable us to safely move a patient who is in cardiogenic shock to the imaging device needed to provide better diagnostics or to a catheterization lab that might facilitate treatment. It will also allow us to transport very sick patients from less specialized community hospitals that have provided all the treatment available to them.“
The small, portable Lifebridge device provides complete cardiopulmonary support for patients who are in cardiogenic shock, an acute, life-threatening situation in which blood circulation is reduced because the heart can no longer pump enough oxygenated blood to the body’s organs. Without mechanical assistance for the heart and lungs, the patient’s organs fail and recovery is impossible. Existing heart/lung machines cannot be moved with the ill patient because of their size and weight, and perfusionists are needed to run them. Methodist’s new device weighs less than 40 lbs and can be operated by trained EMS workers and medical personnel with no need for assistance from a perfusionist.
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