Posted on 04/06/2020 3:39:58 PM PDT by NRx
Boris Johnson’s move to the intensive care unit (ICU) of St Thomas’ hospital signals that he has severe Covid-19. Oxygen was available through a mask on the ward he was admitted to on Sunday, but the move to intensive care on Monday strongly suggests that was not enough to help him with the breathing problems caused by the viral pneumonia that the virus triggers.
Most people in intensive care, according to the World Health Organization, require ventilation. Around 15% of people with Covid-19 become seriously ill and need oxygen therapy in hospital. A further 5% are moved into intensive care, so that their breathing can be taken over by mechanical ventilation. Some will also need support for other organs.
Anyone who is put on a ventilator will need to be sedated, although they are not unconscious. A tube must be inserted into the patient’s windpipe, so that air and oxygen from the machine can be blown into the lungs. That takes the strain off the lungs while they recover.
Johnson, 55, is said to have been admitted to intensive care in case he should need ventilation, but 63% of those admitted to ICUs in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are ventilated within the first 24 hours. Guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) say that critical care treatment for Covid-19 should be started “with a clear plan of how the treatment will address the diagnosis and lead to agreed treatment goals (outcomes)”.
Ventilation is vital in most severe Covid-19 cases, which is why there has been a huge effort to obtain more machines and even encourage engineering businesses to switch production lines to make them.
In the severest cases, patients are put on an ECMO machine (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation), which can support the heart and lungs...
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Thos are massive assumptions and false blanket statements in your post.
The British doctors will use what is needed.
And have you lived in France and Germany to attest that they are anti semitic?!?
Gay state didn’t say boris deserves to die.
And if you had followed Boris career over the past tw6decades you’d know he has been overweight for decades
Is Mr. Johnson prolife?
No. He’s not pro life or enthusiastically pro abortion. He goes where the wind blows, so his government forced free for all abortion legalisation on northern Ireland
sorry no sarcasm tag - I know what you meant I have been getting tired of this expanding notion of what pre-existing conditions. Apologies
Is Nyquil good for this thing? I have been taking it every time I get a tiny bit congested lately. (Also, zicam, Vitamin C and lots of coffee)
Grow up, you obnoxious, immature Corona Cheerleader.
It’s disgusting how you ghouls wish for high death rates. “SEE, WE TOLD YOU IT WASN’T THE FLU!!!”
We all know you Corona Cheerleaders are hoping that Johnson dies, so get off your high horse.
Me too... I pray for Boris.
I can’t believe we have survived all that we have for 3.5 years, only to go down in defeat to THIS.
This nightmare is causing a recession, which could easily topple Trump, and now Boris Johnson is in intensive care. Lord let it end soon!
“Breathe, Boris! Breathe!”
I hope he’s not getting _that_ level of treatment!
Shovel Hydro chloroquine into his head.
I would hate to be a prominent anti-global in the hospital. Even if guarded 24/7, any deep state affiliated hospital personnel or visitor could make sure your disease is fatal...
Father, prevent any PM, Arkanside in UK.
You who call Trump a liar-or a fool who is taken in by liars on a daily basis-well-you’re opinion means squat to me. You’ve proven to me you’re all really too stupid to form a coherent thought. It’s pretty sad that Hillary was right about you. You’re a deplorable who won’t even stand by your own President-although you think you are-but your very posts cut him off at the knees. So-you’re embarrassing yourself and the party and your president.
If they are not giving him IV-C, they aren’t serious about saving him
You do realise that Dominic Raab, who is now deputising for Boris is the son of jewish refugee children from the Czech republic right?
Sorry, sweetie, but I’m a proud Trump supporter.
You are the one embarrassing yourself.
Yeah. That’s why he calls it a war - and y’all call it a hoax. He calls it a fight and says the next two weeks are tough- you all say it’s all fake numbers. But go ahead-sooth your conscience....uh...sweetie. You know-when I support the President-I do so without calling him a liar or an imbecile manipulated by liars. But-however you sleep at night. “Sweetie”;-)
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