Fwd: [Scan-DC] A little off-topic - Multilator?

[Euan Fisk]

Probably a contraction of MULTIple [patient] ventiLATOR.


On Dec 14, 2007 10:07 AM, <oldsdoug at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Well, it's amazing what you can find on the internet.  As I suspected, a multilator is a respirator unit that can deliver oxygen to multiple patients from one O2 cylinder.
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> What I _didn't_ know is that not only was the artist Vincent Van Gogh a great painter, he was also a self-multilator!
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> http://ezinearticles.com/?Vincent-Van-Gogh---Great-Painter-and-Self-Multilator&id=785403
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> And all this time I thought he just cut his own ear off...
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> > From: oldsdoug at hotmail.com
> > To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> > Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:32:32 -0500
> > Subject: [Scan-DC] A little off-topic - Multilator?
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> > A little off-topic, I guess, since it concerns emergency equipment rather than radios, but... I was looking at the PowerPoint presentation on Montgomery County's new MedCareSupU (see post from the other day, http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/content/FireRescue/dcQuicklinks/), and I see on slide #9 that it's equipped with 4 "multilators". Anybody here know what a multilator is? (Yeah, yeah, I'm going to google it as soon as I finish this... shoulda done that first!) I have an idea what it might be... but when I first read it, I thought it said that the vehicle was equipped with 4 "mutilators", which would seem to be a useful thing for a medical support unit. Haha.