Who lives and who dies? With ventilators limited amid coronavirus, doctor might face hard choices
March 26, 2020, 5:58 pm
In extreme situations, a lack of ventilators could also mean that staff use a hand-held pump to push air in and out of patients’ lungs, said Dr. Wally Ghurabi, ER medical director at UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica. In Los Angeles County, there are 833 ventilators across the county’s 70 public and private hospitals, according to a ...
