[CodeToad]

No wonder you claim you are losing patients, you’re an idiot. No one puts people arbitrarily on vents. No one. Yet, here you are supporting the idea that a suspected diagnosis of covid means venting a patient, which has killed tens of thousands with that protocol.

[gas_dr]

Ummmm
You are not very bright. I asked what is the criteria for putting someone on a vent. I happen to know it and asked someone else spouting them same uneducated points you are what we are supposed to do.

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.

Also If a patient has life threatening hypoxemia how should it be treated. What is an acceptable PaO2 to you. Where would you intervene.

Your attack simply demonstrates you either can’t or won’t read

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

[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.