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Luke Parrish (Login lsparrish)
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Posted Jul 2, 2009 12:12 AM
... there is no need to replace the staffs entirely with doctors. You need someone capable of doing a femoral cannulation, (this could be someone who has worked in animal research, or a retired physician assistant who has worked in heart surgery). You need someone capable of gaining IV access on a patient with no blood pressure. Hiring a retired paramedic, or even just having a paramedic group who will provide someone on a "per diem" basis, (with an iron-clad contract requiring someone to show up for cases, of course), would be great, for this purpose. And, you need a perfusionist.
This actually sounds very feasable, I am impressed. About how much would it cost? Would $30,000 be plenty? What I have in mind is that perhaps a local cryonics group could arrange something like this for their members based on life insurance (with subsequent storage at CI for the standard $28,000).
Paramedics and perfusionists spend many months, performing procedures on human patients, with an experienced instructor standing over their shoulders. If a paramedic student can't get an IV in pretty quickly, he gets pushed to the side, so that some who can do it can help the patient. I spend six months, perfusing more than 100 patients in heart surgery, with an instructor seated beside me. It's naive to think that laymen can properly perform these tasks, adequately, and without inflicting additional damage.
I see your point. The thing is, even if the trained team of laymen only lose one patient out of 100 that a professional could have saved, that's still a significant loss. None of us wants to be that one patient. So I think you are right about this... If it is really relatively inexpensive to hire a local team of paramedics (or retired paramedics), it sounds like that could be the best option available. |
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