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19. Ventilators killed people. Putting someone on a ventilator who is suffering from influenza, pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or any other condition which restricts breathing or affects the lungs, will not alleviate any of those symptoms. In fact, it will almost certainly make it worse, and will kill many of them.

Intubation tubes are a source of potential a infection known as “ventilator-associated pneumonia”, which studies show affects up to 28% of all people put on ventilators, and kills 20-55% of those infected.

Mechanical ventilation is also damaging to the physical structure of the lungs, resulting in “ventilator-induced lung injury”, which can dramatically impact quality of life, and even result in death.

Experts estimate 40-50% of ventilated patients die, regardless of their disease. Around the world, between 66 and 86% of all “Covid patients” put on ventilators died.

This policy was negligence at best, and potentially deliberate murder at worst.

https://off-guardian.org/2021/09/22/30-facts-you-need-to-know-your-covid-cribsheet/

You have no idea what you are talking about and the medical textbook of the Gaurdian is laughable

But, doc., since you are obviously a fellowship trained intensivist with ample critical care experience please list for us the indications for mechanical ventilation. Please list the six causes and two categories of hypoxemia. Relate it to the West zones of the lung and when you are done synthesizing all of that please tell us what the markers of progress are on the vent, the timeline for emergence of VAP and preventive measures

Can’t wait to hear your answers.

I will probably regret wading into this.

But..

If you don’t want to be put on a ventilator, then be sure your DNR is on file at the hospital.

My father died of COPD 20 years ago. He was in the hospital for the last month of his life. At some point during that month, in the middle of the night, he stopped breathing. He did not have his DNR a on file and they put him on a ventilator. This is what hospitals do, if you stop breathing they do what it takes to get you breathing again.

Now once ona ventilator, they can’t take you off, cause that would kill you. Hospitals try not to kill people.

On day two, the doctor told me there was a finite window in which to get him off the ventilator. He had to take so many breaths per minute for so many hours,, on his own while on the ventilator. I sat him for several hours reminding him to breathe . It was an effort. But he finally passed the protocol and was ex tubated.

Two hours later, we had his DNR at the hospital.

He did die a week later.

If you are old, sick, weak, it is very hard to get off a ventilator.

This is not a conspiracy on the part of the hospital. No one was trying to kill him. If someone is near the end of life, sometimes tough decisions have to be made.

If you don’t want a ventilator, be sure your DNR is on file.