Year: 2006
Resolution Number: 90
Action Taken: No Action
Status:
Author(s): John A. Rupke, MD
Sponsor: Domenic R. Federico, MD, Kent County
On behalf of:
Committee: D (Public Health)
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That the potential bird flu pandemic disaster be widely purveyed to the state medical societies and the state hospital associations and the 3,142 counties under their purview; and be it furtherRESOLVED: That every county survey its ventilator resources including disposable emergency ventilators normally used by paramedics, pressured from oxygen tanks (cost $50-100 each), also CPAP machines ($300 – 600) – and the old iron lungs of some 50 to 60 years ago (they kept patients alive). RATIONALE: The Committee was informed that the requested survey has already been conducted as a part of the state’s disaster management plan.
RESOLVED: That the potential bird flu pandemic disaster be widely purveyed to the state medical societies and the state hospital associations and the 3,142 counties under their purview; and be it furtherRESOLVED: That every county survey its ventilator resources including disposable emergency ventilators normally used by paramedics, pressured from oxygen tanks (cost $50-100 each), also CPAP machines ($300 – 600) – and the old iron lungs of some 50 to 60 years ago (they kept patients alive). RATIONALE: The Committee was informed that the requested survey has already been conducted as a part of the state’s disaster management plan.
Fiscal Note: NULL
Resolution: View PDF for Who Lives, Who Dies?