NC hospitals say nearly all COVID-19 patients on ventilators are unvaccinated

WRAL.com ^

[Blue Turtle]

At WakeMed and UNC hospitals, 100% of COVID-19 patients on ventilators are unvaccinated, they said. At all WakeMed hospitals, only 1 in 10 ICU patients are fully vaccinated, and at Duke, all the patients on ECMO, a form of life support used for only the sickest patients, are unvaccinated.

[bagster]

You continue to show yourself to be at best irrelevant or at most maliciously stupid.

Tsk, tsk. There's that bedside manner again.

[bagster]

I’m glad I’m not your hero. I generally find it insulting when the rabidly incorrect agree with me.

Would that make you 'rabidly incorrect' too?

Not sure, not a doctor.

[bagster]

So. Code what are the indications for mechanical ventilation. Define the west zones of the lung and relate it to the pathophysiology of viral pneumonia. Define ARDS. what are the techniques that demonstrate increased survival at 30 days.

Here we go....

#ShiningYourOwnApple

#StillWrong

[bagster]

No I understood the efficacy of HCQ. It was and is ineffective.

HCQ = ineffective

Vaccine = effective

signed,

bizarro_dr

[Magnatron]

There’s never enough popcorn when Bags and Gas Dr are on the same thread…

[bagster]

And that, O my pureblood AND mudblood brothers and sisters, is the story of the covids in a nutshell.

You have the right of it down to a tee, Turbo. Read this and know truth, vaxxers.

[humblegunner]

You add nothing of substance to the discussion, just insults and harassment.

Hey now, that's MY job description.

[BeauBo]

Again - stop harassing me, stop insulting me.

Don’t address me any more. It is not welcome.

It is violating the rules of the forum.

[bagster]

There’s never enough popcorn when Bags and Gas Dr are on the same thread…

Haha. Ain't that the truth. Somebody's got to knock the Gas man down a few pegs. He does think he's the prettiest one, don't he?

[MayflowerMadam]

My hubby volunteered at the local hospital mid-2020 when EVERYBODY was GOING TO DIE! The hospitals were BURSTING AT THE SEAMS! Panic everywhere.

Nope. Hospital had plenty of beds. Staff was not overworked. Big frickin’ lie to further the chaos and shore up effort for mail-in ballots for RAT cheating.

[bagster]

Hey now, that's MY job description.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Simple! 2 different protocols. Only the unvaccinated are placed on Remdesiver and Ventilators. I’ve seen this many times

[Jan_Sobieski]

Exactly! No therapeutics for you, scum!

[Polynikes]

Our esteemed anesthesiologist works as a hospitalist (In-house) at a Florida medical center/hospital ICU. IMHO he most likely is just following directed policy determined by the CDC and/or his hospital, within the limits of his medical judgment of course.

Sort of a when in doubt ventilate situation or just following orders. It keeps the malpractice premiums down.

[moovova]

WRAL, WakeMed and UNC hospitals.

I’m guessing there’s no left-wing agenda from these folks...

[setter]

“Your fear is palpable. I’m curious why it’s so important to you that others bow to the fear as you have.”

I have zero fear. I am double vaxxed and went through bad covid.

If you anti vaxxers want to not take the vaccine knock yourselves out. I can care less if you die.

All you anti vaxxers dying off strengthens the social securtity system for me and my wife.

[David Chase]

Times sure have changed Doc.

Before there were PulseOx devices, in the field we would bag the pt based on appearances.

Cyanotic, chest movement, accessory muscles being used.
And of course the possible reason for the pt DIB in the first place.

If they went into respiratory arrest, we’d intubate.
Love that Mac Blade.

Then when those fancy PulseOx meters came out……..I still had a hard time counting on them and still based my actions on the pt’s signs and symptoms. LOL

Of course as time went by I got use to a PulseOx Meter and trusted it more and more.

Our protocols for intubation was an SP O2 of 89 or lower.

I was working with a fill-in medic when my partner was on vacation and this fill-in guy was almost done with his P.A. program and doing clinical time at the hospital we were going to take our pt. to.

Pt. had an SP O2 at 85, still consensus and this P.A. wanted to crash the Pt. with Morphine so we can intubate her……..so I agreed. (Yikes!!)

Anyway, dosed her with 8mg IVP, then 2mg more…….it worked. Whew!
Meanwhile I’m standing by with Narcan holding her I.V. Port ready to push! LOL

I sure do miss it.

[gas_dr]

Ah the good old days. It’s funny you and I both can take one look at someone and it is as clear as a bell if they need a tube.

It’s funny you mention cyanosis and use. One of my all time favorite professors was fond of saying if the lips are blue, the brain is, too. Funny. That always stuck with me.

[David Chase]

“ One of my all time favorite professors was fond of saying if the lips are blue, the brain is, too.”
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LMAO!! Excellent.

[flamberge]

I have a bit of sympathy for the poster who identifies as "gas_dr".

He must be terribly frustrated when other people publicly reject his advice. Especially when his advice is based on constantly repeated personal experiences in a professional setting that requires long hours and years of training.

I get that.

The boundary of that sympathy gets reached when I hear recommendations for effective treatments which the Federal Government has made increasingly unobtainable.

I have lost all patience with appeals to authority as well. Authorities have repeatedly disgraced themselves with pompous, self-serving, and incorrect decrees which cause problems rather than solve them. "Never let a crisis go to waste" is their policy. These people are Evil.

What should we do about COVID? Data sources that might help us answer that question in a rational manner have been corrupted or suppressed in service to totalitarian political agendas.

It isn't possible to know what to do with great certainty. Data are ambiguous, corrupted, or simply missing. The best one can do is try to pick information out of the noise level and then choose a course of action.