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Why Do We Need a Ventilator?

Q When we finished our JCAHO reaccreditation review, we were told that we had to purchase a ventilator - even though we don't do general anesthesia at our podiatry center. We don't have the resources to spend on an expensive machine that will gather dust in our OR and I don't understand the reasoning behind it.

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