Sounds like good ol' eugenics to me.
That’s exactly what it is. The medical profession is knee deep in it.
The best way to describe this is that,
“Once again, the US government has gone ‘Full Mengele’.”
Likewise, it can be called the “Frankenstein complex”, in which ethics and humanity are entirely lost, in the pursuit of experimenting with the lives of others.
Under Obamacare (and perhaps even not), will the quest for one-size-fits-all medical 'solutions' as opposed to individual care overrule the Hippocratic Oath?
Will the quest for 'cost savings' and 'efficient use of medical personnel' lead to countless avoidable deaths, for the sake of being able to use a setting off a chart rather than what the patient actually needs?
What was the goal of this particular experiment but to find a trade-off number for O2 treatment of neonatal ICU patients?
We universally view Mengele as the monster he was, can even the Obamites and baby slaughterers of this age justify this sort of experimentation?
Altering readouts to keep personnel from adjusting O2 levels to more tolerable or necessary levels to sustain life is criminal, imho. Better to note the range which is insufficient and increase it, or the excessive range and decrease it to come up with a tighter window of acceptable therapy than dogmatically keep the amount the same at the expense of the patients.
What happened to "First, do no harm..."?
Soulless monsters.
screw that
I worked with Dr. Carlo for years back in the ‘80s in what was at the time the leading NICU in the world with literally the authors of the textbook. He was very highly respected and liked by the nurses. He was one of the few doctors that could be bothered to come to the holiday parties. We did many research studies in the NICU. I can’t imagine him having an unethical bone in his body. He always did what was thought to be in a baby’s best interest. I can not possibly speak highly enough of him as a doctor, and there have been very, very few doctors I’ve liked or respected.
From the perspective of first hand research experience in NICU, the likely culprits are the medical residents and nurses in this whole mess. The attending physicians (high mucky-mucks) do rounds and go by the documentation and reports given them, and what they see when they examine a baby. So- 24 hours of falsified reports and several short, personal exams during the day...how are they to know what shenanigans are actually being pulled? I more than once told a resident “over my dead body.” With 20 nurses doing that multiple times a day, the attendings only hear the really, really, exceptionally bad behavior/decisions. They wouldn’t have time to go teach their university classes if they had to hear it all. My suspicion is some fellows and senior residents were the ones to blame in this mess trying to ‘cook the books’ and further their careers. Certainly a history of that! Someone of Carlos’ status- a famous NICU doctor- would have too much to lose for (another) stinking study.
Lastly, my favorite memory of him:
We had an infection outbreak that went on for months exasperating us trying to get rid of it- cleaning, rotating rooms, sweltering in gowns and gloves.... Finally one morning Dr. Carlos said we’d tried everything possible we could do, then turned and invoked a blessing on the nursery. Our problem stopped after that. Very sad to me to see his good reputation and character smeared after knowing him so many years.