MSNBC The 11th Hour With Brian Williams September 3, 2021 06:51:00
So what did these machines do? we have trained staff, respiratory therapists, doctors, nurses, that go through additional training. really specialized providers. they operate machines where the blood is physically removed through large ivs and sent to a machine, an oxygenator, where the blood is oxygenated and transferred back into the body. we go here when the ventilator is not enough, it's a last resort option. this is high risk, it's labor intensive but it can be life-saving. and yet there is only so many machines that we can deploy, because of resource shortages. because we have only so ma...