Virtual rendering of coronavirus patient’s lungs shows extensive damage the virus can cause
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WJLA/CNN) - A doctor at George Washington University Hospital wants everyone to know exactly how COVID-19 can damage your lungs.
He created a virtual rendering of lungs from an actual patient being treated at the hospital, and he thinks it has a powerful message for the public.
“So we can see it front to back, side to side..“So what you’re seeing in the video, essentially the blue part is the more normal lung, but anything you’re seeing yellow is lung that’s being destroyed by the virus,” Mortman said..”
Treatment for severe acute respiratory distress syndrome from COVID-19
Given the practical constraints on substantially increasing the global availability of ECMO services in the next few months, it is important to emphasise the other evidence-based treatment options that can be provided for patients with severe ARDS from COVID-19 (figure).2 Before endotracheal intubation, it is important to consider a trial of high-flow nasal oxygen for patients with moderately severe hypoxaemia. This procedure might avoid the need for intubation and mechanical ventilation because it provides high concentrations of humidified oxygen, low levels of positive end-expiratory pressure, and can facilitate the elimination of carbon dioxide.4 WHO guidelines support the use of high-flow nasal oxygen in some patients, but they urge close monitoring for clinical deterioration that could result in the need for emergent intubations because such procedures might increase the risk of infection to health-care workers.5
w/therapy-implementation chart:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30127-2/fulltext
Thank you!
Very alarming.