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Originally Posted by Jdarby
I have a degree in Respiratory Therapy and worked in critical care for many years. The decision to place someone on a ventilator due to acute illness is never taken lightly. When a COVID patient is intubated, they are in extremus. So I don’t think it’s accurate to say people were fast-tracked to ventilators. Being on a ventilator is bad. It is physiologically abnormal and bad things happen to the lungs and body because of it. As a Respiratory Therapist, our goal was to do everything to avoid having to place a patient on a ventilator and once they were on, we did everything to get them off ASAP. Generally speaking, COVID patients do not fair well on ventilators. There are alternative means of oxygenating critically ill patients such as ECMO but this requires very specialized equipment and staff that can only be found in larger healthcare centers. Be well!
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That is not speculation by me, it was reported extensively by so called experts in the medical field to the media
in numerous interviews I watched.
The alleged expert doctors were claiming in these interviews that they learned over time that even though the patients blood oxygen levels were lower than they had ever seen in people still walking around, patients seemed to actually respond better to simple oxygen masks and other treatments, with better long term recovery than those who were intubated an hooked up to ventilators.
I know nothing about this other than what the experts said when interviewed on TV, so if you tell me they are wrong, I have no basis to dispute the matter with you and I will assume this is yet another example of bad reporting by the media and more BS experts shooting their mouths off when they dont know what they are talking about.
Which takes us back to what do we actually know, and it again seems that the conflicts and contradictions cast a dark cloud over the things many say are fact.
More frustrated with every passing day, and questioning what I actually know with every new tidbit of information.
The old saying of
believe half of what you see and NONE of what you hear seems more appropriate every day. Or maybe it was said best on the old X-Files show,
Trust No One