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- Hello guys, it's your old mate Nick,
looking a little bit different.
We've just gone into our sixth lockdown here in Melbourne.
So it's been a long slog for the last 18 months
and the wife came up to me and said,
"I don't know how much longer
I can put up with you looking like a homeless man."
And those were her words,
so I took it upon myself
to have a little bit of a Dad and Dave
and then next week I've also booked in with my brother,
who's an extremely talented hairdresser,
to potentially have a little bit of a trim also.
But aside from that,
look we're doing okay.
We're all a little bit fatigued
and a little bit over all this virus stuff.
My little daughter Haley,
was due to have her birthday next week.
She's gonna miss that again
and she missed her 2020 birthday as well
so she's a little bit sad but,
we're all toughing it out.
Now I wanna show you all a video.
It's a video of the CEO of Phillips, Frans van Houten,
when he was interviewed by some financial guys.
And I want you to pay close attention to what he says
when asked about potential litigation from the recall.
All right, here it is.
- So Frans, obviously you've had some major issues
in regards to the sleep apnea products.
You made a provision last month I understand,
of 500 million euros.
Is that at the extreme,
is that as bad as you think the litigation may be
in regards to the product recall?
- With regards to the word litigation,
I think it is way too early.
We will of course,
use all the data that we have
to prove that while this causes discomfort
it is not a ground for litigation.
- I think you will find you are wrong Frans, and here's why.
Okay, so let's talk about this data.
And this is data actually provided by Phillips,
and I don't really trust it.
It's a new document titled
Sleep and Respiratory Care update, clinical information.
And it's quite a big document,
it's a little bit tedious,
there's a lot of scientific jargon in there
so I'm gonna try and break it down for you,
and this is sort of the most important
parts of the document.
If you wanna read the whole document
just have a look in the description below,
and I'll put a link down there.
All right firstly, foam degradation.
"Lab analysis confirm the presence of DEG,
diethylene glycol, as well as other compounds."
So let's just stop right here, straight off the bat.
Phillips, what is the point of providing
a new lab analysis document,
if you're not gonna tell us what the compounds are?
What are these other compounds?
(Nick clearing throat)
Asbestos.
(Nick clearing throat)
I mean, who the hell knows?
This is why I don't trust these documents from Phillips,
they're so shady.
Anyway DEG, diethylene glycol,
the one they do mention is pretty nasty just by itself.
It's pretty toxic stuff,
it's been involved in a number of prominent mass poisonings
dating back a long way to like 1937 and quote
"Ingestion can lead to serious complications
that may prove fatal."
All right, and I'll put a few general articles
in the description of the video,
so you can go and read up on diethylene glycol.
All right, that's one of the major compounds
that they've found.
Phillips goes on to say,
"Laboratory accelerated aged foam
was used to obtain sufficient quantity of field samples
for biocompatibility lab testing."
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And basically what that means is Phillips
recreated the degrading foam in the lab
and tested it for toxicity.
And here's what they found.
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- "Cytotoxicity was positive
for the extraction concentrations
while two genotoxicity assay's
showed a positive mutagenic response."
All right A, cytotoxicity,
toxic to cells,
causes cell damage or death.
All right so that's your cells getting destroyed.
B genotoxicity. Toxic damage to DNA.
"This causes DNA mutations,
which may lead to cancer, birth defects, et cetera."
So that's about as black and white
as it can possibly get, moving on.
"They state that based on the test data
and the information available,
Phillips believes that most degraded foam particles
are too big to be deeply inhaled."
And that is that most of them
sort of get caught in your mouth or in your upper airway,
in the mucus membranes up here,
in your trachea
and that they don't go right down
into your deep lung tissue, into your alveoli.
All right so they continue with,
"According to analysis by Phillips,"
which I don't trust,
"the majority of particles are of a size
greater than eight micrometers
and are unlikely to penetrate into the deep lung tissue.
Smaller particles less than three micrometers,
are capable of diffusing into the deep lung tissue
and deposit into the alveoli.
During testing performed by outside labs,
on the degraded foam,
the smallest particulate size identified
was 2.69 micrometer."
So smaller three micro meter,
which is clearly small enough to penetrate
deep down into the lungs,
into your alveoli.
And there it stays forever.
Constantly off-gassing the dangerous chemicals.
They then go on to talk about the VOCs,
the volatile organic compounds
and I've already discussed them in another video.
So we won't go down that rabbit hole again.
And here is just a few of the a hundred comments
from Phillips patients on my channel.
All right, a few select comments
and there's hundreds of them.
So this is real-world data.
"I replaced my Phillips machine a few months ago,
thankfully with a different brand.
During the time with Phillips,
I developed progressively worsening breathing problems
and was diagnosed with COPD.
I've never smoked a cigarette in my life.
Since receiving my replacement,
my breathing has dramatically improved.
I didn't make any connection until now. Wow."
"My husband used one since 2019,
and now has stage four throat and nose cancer.
Never smoked a day in his life and passed away last month.
In discussion with lawyers now."
That's quite sad that one.
"Thanks for your video.
I use one for years
and I actually got diagnosed with tonsil cancer
and it spread to my lymph nodes.
I've emailed Phillips and I'm seeking legal advice."
"Now I know why my lungs have nodules all over them.
Been on a DreamStation for years."
"Great, I have stage four cancer
and I've been having severe headaches
since day one on this machine.
Doctor said, stop using it ASAP."
Sorry guys, just had a little moment there but I'm back.
Now the FDA knows how serious this recall is,
because they've classified it a class I.
And that's the most serious type of recall there is.
Quote from the FDA.
"Use of these devices may cause serious injury or death."
All right. So I can't be any more blunt than that.
This is serious.
It also struck me the other day
that this recall also involves all the ventilators,
machines used to keep people alive.
COVID patients, people under severe respiratory distress
and here you have Philips,
pumping these poor patients with diethylene glycol
and these other compounds and foam
and all sorts of other shit,
right when they're at their worst.
And just on this,
Phillips has just been issued with another class I recall
on their ventilators from the FDA.
Two class I's within a matter of months.
"All right so all of Philips ventilators
designed to provide high flow oxygen therapy
are affected by the recall.
Compromising more than 16,500 of the company's V60
and V60 Plus ventilators,
distributed from May 2009 until June this year."
That is a long time back to be recalling ventilators
that have been providing basically life support for people.
"Those devices are used in hospital
for patients in need of mechanical breathing support,
including those with respiratory failure,
chronic respiratory insufficiency,
or obstructive sleep apnea."
Alright, so thus far we have the disintegrating foam, right?
Which can be embedded deep inside your lung tissues,
in your alveoli, off-gassing forever.
You toxic chemicals,
your diethylene glycol,
all right, that's really bad stuff.
Your volatile organic chemicals,
carcinogenic chemicals above the safety range.
And on top of this,
we now have these ventilators
that provide low oxygen content when people are dying.
"Rather than recalling the devices,
in the truest sense of the word,
that is asking effected healthcare providers
to return the ventilators,"
which is what a recall should be,
"Phillips has instead issued a new set of safety guidelines,
governing ongoing use of the ventilators.
Hospital staff must conduct constant and close monitoring
of all patients connected to the ventilators."
Constant monitoring, heinous,
this ventilator, keeping this poor guy alive,
it might not work sometimes.
So don't you dare leave his side.
- Brian I'm gonna be honest with you,
that smells like pure gasoline.
- They've done studies you know,
60% of the time it works, every time.
- That doesn't make sense.
- Now old mate Frans van Recall,
is obviously too busy selling toothbrushes and shavers
to come out and do a public apology.
So I thought I'd do one on his behalf,
to all you Phillips users.
Here it goes.
"On behalf of Phillips,
I would just like to offer my deepest apologies
to all our patients and retail partners,
affected by the recall.
As CEO, I take full responsibility for the mistake
and I'm truly sorry for all the hardship caused.
I want to assure everyone,
that I'm doing everything in my power
to restore your trust in the Phillips brand.
All those affected by the recall,
will now see brand new DreamStation 2 devices,
and we'll be working very hard to get these out to you
in the coming months,
so you can continue your therapy with Phillips.
I hope in time that we can earn your trust.
And I'm very sorry that we let you down.
It won't happen again.
Thank you for your time, Nick,
on behalf of Frans van Recall."
Thanks for watching guys.
See you soon.
Look out for one another. Bye now.