This is in general hogwash and this RN doesn’t have the education nor credentials to make the judgments she makes.
I can assure you we don’t stuff people on ventilators to kill them. As a matter of fact a recent critical care article has refuted the notion that 80% of patients with SARS Died. The number is more like 35-40% which though it sounds drastic is the mortality for any ARDS and sepsis shock case.
When we make the decision to intubate three things are taken into account. Oxygenation, ventilations, and mechanics. We look at indicators on blood gas, radiology, and clinical diagnosis to make the decision and weight the risks against the benefits. We look at things like the Pa : Fi gradient and make judgments on a plethora of well established criteria and clinical experience.
What we also know is that early on non clinician researchers made some horrible reconditions they we went with. Avoid high flow oxygen. Avoid bipap we it might aerosolize the virus. And cause spread. So we took several steps that are intermediate to intubation off the table.
We sedate people on mechanical ventilation lightly because not being able to talk with a tube on tour throat is not overwhelmingly comfortable. We have someone looking for a moment of fame who doesn’t know what she is talking s out in this case.
But hey it stirs up controversy.
This nurse went from Tampa to help at a hospital in Queens. She describes her experience. Do you work at this hospital?
Re: Blood gases
I have come to the conclusion that low oxygen levels in many nursing home patients was caused by strapping a surgical mask around their mouth and nose for days on end.
SARS had a very tiny death count. Dr Fauci back then was saying over 200 million dead. It ended up being under 1,000.
I am actually friends with a few RNs. She sounds the same to me.
Perhaps RNs try keep things simple for the public?
I would not be so quick to dismiss her.
Erin Marie Olszewski is a Nurse-turned-investigative journalist, who has spent the last few months on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, on the inside in two radically different settings. Two hospitals. One private, the other public. One in Florida, the other in New York. And not just any New York public hospital, but the "epicenter of the epicenter" itself, the infamous Elmhurst in Donald Trump's Queens. As a result of these diametrically opposed experiences, she has the ultimate "perspective on the pandemic". She has been where there have been the most deaths attributed to Covid-19 and where there have been the least. Erin enlisted in the Army when she was 17. She deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. Part of her duties involved overseeing aid disbursement and improvements to hospital facilities. While in country she received the Army Commendation Medal for meritorious service, and was wounded in combat. Erin eventually retired as a sergeant, and became a civilian nurse in 2012. Erin is a medical freedom and informed consent advocate. She co-founded the Florida Freedom Alliance but no longer has any connection with the organization. Watch more episodes of Perspectives on the Pandemic here: Episode 1: https://dai.ly/x7ubcws Episode 2: https://dai.ly/k7af1wKOAvcoA7w5DkZ Episode 3: https://youtu.be/VK0Wtjh3HVA Episode 4: https://youtu.be/cwPqmLoZA4s Episode 5: https://dai.ly/k3l3VyZ2YQv6Zbw5VqE Episode 6: https://youtu.be/3f0VRtY9oTs Episode 7: https://youtu.be/2JbOvjtnPpE Episode 8: https://youtu.be/WlLmt6_w_AM (As of publication of this video, the producers are still awaiting comment from Elmhurst Hospital). Produced by Libby Handros and John Kirby, The Press and the Public Project.
Erin Marie Olszewski is a Nurse-turned-investigative journalist, who has spent the last few months on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, on the inside in two radically different settings. Two hospitals. One private, the other public. One in Florida, the other in New York. And not just any New York public hospital, but the "epicenter of the epicenter" itself, the infamous Elmhurst in Donald Trump's Queens. As a result of these diametrically opposed experiences, she has the ultimate "perspective on the pandemic". She has been where there have been the most deaths attributed to Covid-19 and where there have been the least. Erin enlisted in the Army when she was 17. She deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. Part of her duties involved overseeing aid disbursement and improvements to hospital facilities. While in country she received the Army Commendation Medal for meritorious service, and was wounded in combat. Erin eventually retired as a sergeant, and became a civilian nurse in 2012. Erin is a medical freedom and informed consent advocate. She co-founded the Florida Freedom Alliance but no longer has any connection with the organization. Watch more episodes of Perspectives on the Pandemic here: Episode 1: https://dai.ly/x7ubcws Episode 2: https://dai.ly/k7af1wKOAvcoA7w5DkZ Episode 3: https://youtu.be/VK0Wtjh3HVA Episode 4: https://youtu.be/cwPqmLoZA4s Episode 5: https://dai.ly/k3l3VyZ2YQv6Zbw5VqE Episode 6: https://youtu.be/3f0VRtY9oTs Episode 7: https://youtu.be/2JbOvjtnPpE Episode 8: https://youtu.be/WlLmt6_w_AM (As of publication of this video, the producers are still awaiting comment from Elmhurst Hospital). Produced by Libby Handros and John Kirby, The Press and the Public Project.
Watch the first 5 minutes. You get her background.
She is a Vet too.