Posted on 04/04/2020 2:40:09 PM PDT by ocrp1982
I hope that you’re asking in jest.
Destruction of lung tissues’ ability to oxygenate the blood is a death sentence unless the infection can be overcome. The doc’s right: A ventilator does NOTHING but buy time, and “hope” that the patient can survive long enough to defeat the virus before their lungs are destroyed.
If doctors choose to seek the pharmacological approach over others, that’s their business. But it’s our business to call them out for their hypocrisy in denying their patients a possible cure as their patients die.
To-wit: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3831003/posts
The fear being projected upon everyone else to compel compliance with illegal suspension of assembly, travel and commerce is criminal of the first order.
Information on how to treat COVID-19 patients with respiratory insufficiency has been decimated for at least 2 weeks now. Heated hi-flo nasal cannula is the preferred next step for patients that do not oxygenate well with regular O2 via nasal cannula. Try not use CPAP or BiPAP (which certainly has been a staple of hospital medicine, but for the same reasons you get too much volume and pressure which damages the lungs), low threshold to intubation and then low tidal volume ventilation at 4-8mL/kg using ideal body weight (prudence would indicate start at 4mL/kg and work up to achieve desired oxygenation).
It's been published for over 1 week (but the grape vine has been telling doctors for over 2 weeks about this):
Management of Critically Ill Adults With COVID-19
It's also recommended in uptodate.com. Updated on 4/1/2020:
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): Critical care issues
Now assuming the Doctor knows about this stuff, ARDS prior to COVID-19 has a high mortality rate. COVID-19 seems to attack and inflame the tissues needed for good O2 transport. They are therefore fragile and that will only make their ARDS worse and more deadly. Interestingly the uptodate article seems to indicate that prone positioning seems to work better on COVID-19 ARDS than typical ARDS patients (which has been part of the standard treatment for low oxygenation in ARDS for years).
Zinc chelate, oxide, glutamate, acetate, or other variants are more likely to be biologically available than metallic zinc.
Is Kevorkian still around?
bmp
If Cuomo wants to play doctor, he should play epidemiologist and shut down the NYC subway. This am. STAT.
That’s the “vector” right under his nose
Would you refuse DPT or polio vaccines for your children?
Sorry, wrong thread.
She would be hurting, but there are other meds available for that.
She just re-ordered her scrip, and I told her to put a dozen pills away for my wife and I... not worried about our teens, they will do just fine if they get it.
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