True fact. I also happen to know a few non profit organizations that set up makeshift hospitals to treat corona-virus patients. A large percentage of thise who are hospitalized are not coming out.
Hospital are not allowing relative in to make decisions for incapacitated relatives, and ventilators appear to be killing more than they are helping
It's highly variable oxygenation with patient position, implying some kind if impaired diffusion capacity, which could mean something like micro embolisms. Prone positioning wouldn't do anything for a process that was purely an impairment of hemoglobin. I'm not saying its not happening, but there it's at least something else going on in the picture
A caller on Rush the other day suggested hemolungs should be being used as opposed to ventilators. Smaller/easier to manufacture and in his opinion better suited to help people breathe. Rush was semi-dismissive of him, but they went to break and checked him out and he was actually the director of an anesthesiology department like he claimed to be.
True fact. I also happen to know a few non profit organizations that set up makeshift hospitals to treat corona-virus patients. A large percentage of thise who are hospitalized are not coming out.
Hospital are not allowing relative in to make decisions for incapacitated relatives, and ventilators appear to be killing more than they are helping
https://nypost.com/2020/04/06/nyc-doctor-says-coronavirus-ventilator-settings-are-too-high/
It's because they used ARDSnet criteria, and people are starting to realize it's not ARDS but some kind of shunting defect.
Dr. seemed to indicate it may be a blood virus that prevents the hemoglobin from transporting oxygen
It's highly variable oxygenation with patient position, implying some kind if impaired diffusion capacity, which could mean something like micro embolisms. Prone positioning wouldn't do anything for a process that was purely an impairment of hemoglobin. I'm not saying its not happening, but there it's at least something else going on in the picture
A caller on Rush the other day suggested hemolungs should be being used as opposed to ventilators. Smaller/easier to manufacture and in his opinion better suited to help people breathe. Rush was semi-dismissive of him, but they went to break and checked him out and he was actually the director of an anesthesiology department like he claimed to be.