Originally Posted by
TurboMedic
Yes, acute care usually denotes monitoring and telemetry capability
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Well, considering I was a flight medic for 13 years, managing ICU patients was my wheelhouse. My significant other is also an ICU RRT. So yes, you have no idea what you're talking about. Feel free to also look up ECMO, the sickest of the sick use this, but hey its only one person watching machines go beep boop right? 1:1 minimum care is labour intensive, its often 2:1, sometimes greater. Are there times where the management is low? And I'll use low as a very loose term, these are complex patients with many many moving parts in the balance that constantly need attention and monitoring. Sure there is, but people in ICU on ventilators can do nothing for themselves, and you don't just leave them there until they get better. There's adjustments that have to be made all the time to up to 10 infusions, if they run out, if they fault, they all run different and they're all balancing, there's feed tubes and feed schedules, there's hygiene and waste (yup, these people still pee and poop, just through tubes), there's positioning and movement to prevent clotting and bedsores, there's proning (again, very labour intensive flipping patients connected to countless wires, tubes, and devices), serial blood to be drawn for labs, changing orders, chest physio, ongoing radiology, changing patient condition better or worse. You act like its like your cellphone at the end of the day, you just plug in and walk away and then after a set amount of time its good to go. Vent dependant ICU care is very labour intensive.
EDIT: At this point I have no reason to think you're being anything other than obstinate
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