I believe now that going on a vent is not the best choice....sounds like docs are letting people lanquish with low oxygen as long as they can...being on a vent has a lot of issues in and of itself...
J Crit Care Med just published an article that the death rate is those with SARS is equivalent to other ARDS. So it’s not the vent that is the problem. I do agree however early on bypassing numerous measures like HFNC snd NIPPv was the wrong thing to do
Way too many patients are being put on ventilators and it is damaging their lungs, leading to bloot clots and infections, as was the case here.
In most cases, the patients can physically breathe just fine, they’re just having trouble getting the oxygen. What they need in most cases is a simple low-pressure oxygen tube, not a high pressure ventilator that blows out their lungs.
So why are doctors putting all these patients on ventilators? Money. The hospitals get to charge an extra $39,000 for each patient put on a ventilator. And even though many doctors know doing so is often a death sentence, they are doing it anyway. Too many doctors these days simply do not care. It’s in the WHO guidelines to put corona patients on vents, and since the WHO is god these days, that’s all the legal protection they need.
If I ever had to go to the hospital for this disease, I would let it be known to everyone with written and signed documentation that I am *NOT* in any circumstances to be put on a ventilator.