Posted on 04/04/2020 2:40:09 PM PDT by ocrp1982
In this Vlog Bill plays a video made by a frontline ER Doctor in NYC. He says the standard ventilator treatment being used across the world is not helping any of his patients. In fact, he says it's making things worse. And, he goes into detail as to his observations. And, then pleads for more frontline doctors to speak out.
IV administration would work faster...
I’m reluctant to second-guess the professionals struggling to save lives. Trouble is that after intubation, 80% of patients don’t make it so it seems the critics have a point.
Oregon governor Kate Brown took this as a cue to do the exact opposite.
Oregon voters are stupid. They vote democrat because the people they elect do the exact opposite of what is correct in most every situation.
Bkmrk
Zinc is wonderful. Anytime I start to feel sick - cold, flu, whatever - I am sucking down the zinc lozenges. I always feel better.
Pay no attention to the mumbler behind the bumbler.
In my day there were TWO ventilators in the US that could do “jet Ventilation”. They were incredibly expensive and by the time you had one flown in the patient was dead anyway. But what a Jet Vent can do is establish laminar flow to deliver oxygen without “breaths”. I sort of assumed all vents now days could do this, I don’t know. This technology allows you to ventilate a lung that is VERY stiff as well as lungs in a chest with a wide open hole in it. From what I have heard this disease produces a lung that is very “stiff”, the medical term is “non-compliant.” We heard on say they were requiring 15-25 cm of PEEP. That is astronomical and if your patient didn’t need a chest tube when you started that they dang well would soon. Because at 20 cm PEEP, during the inhalation phase you are seeing pressures that are MUCH higher. A jet vent can inflate a lung such that the PEEP pressure is the highest pressure it sees.
From what I've seen and read, a patient can insist that his doctor give him a prescription early on, and many of them will. If not, he should get a new doctor.
Okay, I’ll take the hook. What the heck does your response mean?
“The Wuhanic Plague”
WHO said that? That is a good one. I think it might go viral.
Cant you just suck on a penny? They are made of zinc. ;)
If the fundamental problem is oxygenation, it seems like the only thing a respirator would do is perhaps give them a little extra time to recover (e.g. the 20%).
humblegunner suffers from Cranky-19. There is no cure.
This is why I am doing my best to stay alive until the medical community/government get it together and give us the drugs after we take a 15 minute test that says we have Wuhan Flu.
A lot of people are needlessly dying. You have to stop the virus from replicating early on.
Zinc and other metals. Don’t know how well the zinc is absorbed that way. Plus, the lozenges taste better.
My friend from Queens has both parents infected. Father is hospitalized on a ventilator, mother was sent home. In order to get hydroxychloroquine for his mother, he had to drive a 6 hour round trip to Pennsylvania. That was Thursday, his mother is feeling better already.
I am always on the lookout for blood tests of Wuhan Flu victims since I have a red blood cell disorder
Scientists might find this interesting
Thank God Almighty for his mom’s turnaround! What about the dad? Did he not get the Hydroxychloroquine as well?
My problem with this video is that that doctor is in charge. If he doesn’t think the ventilator mode and settings are right, then he should change them. He can find out what works. There’s no reason to wait for a protocol, especially one from outside the hospital. Make his own and modify it until it gets results.
(Spoken as one who is personally not that good at vents, but with good examples from those who are.)
They’ve pretty much given up on the father. He is pushing 70 and has smoking related lung damage.
He spent about 10 hours trying to locate a pharmacy that would supply the hydroxychloroquine for his mother But it was worth it.
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