New analysis: Being on a ventilator causes rise in mortality from Covid-19
A new analysis of coronavirus data suggests that reduced use of ventilators leads to a drop in the death rate from the virus, The Telegraph reports. Data show that during a period when around 76% of patients were intubated within 24 hours of being admitted to an ICU, around 43% of ICU patients died, as opposed to around 34% during a period when only around 44.1% patients were intubated. arutzsheva
Intensive care doctors question 'overly aggressive' use of ventilators in coronavirus crisis
Doctors seeing patients with blood oxygen levels so low they are surprised they are conscious – yet they are sitting up and talking. TheTelegraphUK
Neither use of different drugs nor any other changes to clinical guidelines were registered during the periods concerned; analysts believe the drop in death rates is a result of doctors' "informal learning" as they realized that patients on ventilators were faring less well than others on them.
British and American intensive care doctors at the front line of the coronavirus crisis are starting to question the aggressive use of ventilators for the treatment of patients.
In many cases, they say the machines – which are highly invasive and require the patient to be rendered unconscious – are being used too early and may cause more harm than good. Instead they are finding that less invasive forms of oxygen treatment through face masks or nasal cannulas work better for patients, even those with very low blood oxygen readings. [Altitude Disease = thin oxygen levels]
Dr Ron Daniels, a consultant in critical care at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, on Thursday confirmed reports from US medics that he and other NHS doctors were revising their view of when ventilators should be used.
At the heart of the issue was the "bizarre" and "frankly baffling" phenomenon of Covid-19 patients presenting with catastrophically low blood oxygen levels but few other ill effects.
"We've had patients with oxygen measures of just five kilopascals [70-75 per cent of normal] who are talking to us normally and have no obvious air hunger [gasping for breath]”, said Dr Daniels. "Normally anyone with numbers like that would be ventilated, but increasingly with Covid patients we are considering holding back.
"The question everyone is asking is, do we treat symptoms or do we treat the numbers? It's a good question and one that I think doctors everywhere are now grappling with.”
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*this was one of the very first comments from an Emergency Room doctor, but it seems the TPTB nixed this observation, and since then many lives have been terribly internally injured, and lost their lives, due to the ventilator approach to CV.
Remember the brave Cameron Kyle-Sidell:
WE DON’T NEED TO SEE HEADLINES LIKE THIS:
Number Of Israel’s COVID-19 Fatalities Surpass 1,000 YWNCOMMENT: Don't tell persons with symptoms to go home and wait for “trouble breathing” (because that is too late, it should not be allowed to get to that stage) – TREAT EARLY ONSET WITH HCQ, ZPak and Zinc, TO PREVENT HOSPITALIZATION. This is an over 60 year success rate in treating various respiratory/ diseases and just because some farmisootical companies' financial investment in vaccines are threatened, is no reason to let people DIE.
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