It actually looks like this...the yellow is the virus clustered on this red blood cell
I watched his (Kyle-Sidell) video, the one where he says ventilators may be the wrong thing to use because their lungs are working just fine. It’s the Covid-19 virus that is attaching itself to the red blood cells and preventing the red blood cells from absorbing the air to carry to other organs, if I remember correctly. Now it sounds like he is saying something quite different.
Don’t remember the source but it was about how blood vessels adapt to damaged parts of the lungs and O2 supplement would suffice.
It is no secret that ventilators can damage the lungs.
1) Without the iron ion, hemoglobin can no longer bind to oxygen. Once all the hemoglobin is impaired, the red blood cell is essentially turned into a Freightliner truck cab with no trailer and no ability to store its cargo.. it is useless and just running around with COVID-19 virus attached to its porphyrin. All these useless trucks running around not delivering oxygen is what starts to lead to desaturation, or watching the patient’s spo2 levels drop. It is INCORRECT to assume traditional ARDS and in doing so, you’re treating the WRONG DISEASE. Think of it a lot like carbon monoxide poisoning, in which CO is bound to the hemoglobin, making it unable to carry oxygen. In those cases, ventilators aren’t treating the root cause; the patient’s lungs aren’t ‘tiring out’, they’re pumping just fine. The red blood cells just can’t carry o2, end of story. Only in this case, unlike CO poisoning in which eventually the CO can break off, the affected hemoglobin is permanently stripped of its ability to carry o2 because it has lost its iron ion. The body compensates for this lack of o2 carrying capacity and deliveries by having your kidneys release hormones like erythropoietin, which tell your bone marrow factories to ramp up production on new red blood cells with freshly made and fully functioning hemoglobin. This is the reason you find elevated hemoglobin and decreased blood oxygen saturation as one of the 3 primary indicators of whether the shite is about to hit the fan for a particular patient or not.
It actually looks like this...the yellow is the virus clustered on this red blood cell