🫁 VENTILATOR BASICS follow @nursewellversed for visual nursing education A ventilator is a machine that takes over the functions of breathing for patients who cannot breathe on their own. The ventilator is connected to a tube inserted into the patient’s trachea to manually ventilate for them. → Ventilator: Uses positive pressure to PUSH air into the lungs → Normal Breathing: Uses negative pressure to PULL (inhale) air into the lungs ⭐️ Ventilator Settings Basics: 1️⃣ Tidal Volume: → Volume of a

Coronavirus survivor Danny Egan knew exactly what he wanted to do after being discharged from hospital – give his wife a kiss. The 73-year-old grandad was one of the first two previously ventilated COVID-19 patients to go home from Swansea’s Morriston Hospital. The remarkable recoveries were marked by dozens of staff who lined the corridors outside ward H to send off Danny and 48-year-old David Courtney-Williams, a charge nurse on ward 12 at Singleton Hospital, with a rousing round of applause.

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Fire behaviour: Backdraft • As oxygen is re-introduced to the under ventilated fire it’s able to burn more efficiently again. You see the violent, turbulent smoke being expelled under pressure from all gaps before igniting it’s way along the unburnt products of combustion with explosive force. 🎥&✍️ ~ @ukfiremanshipculture | The Hook & Can