Originally Posted by
SoldierNurse
While deployed to Iraq assigned to detainee health care; we would have sandstorms that would result in the air compressors outside getting clogged up. Not a good thing when you have a vent patient and all of the sudden no O2 from the interior wall outlets. Or, sometimes the outside air compressors were shut off for maintenance without letting the medical staff know in advance. Or, having to use portable ventilators for extended periods of time [that is all we had], which would crap out... while hooked up to a patient. Or, ... okay I'll stop now before PTSD kicks in to overdrive, LOL.
BTW, good thread!