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Originally Posted by XCR-700
People with COVID get fast-tracked to ventilators, a large number of people who go on ventilators dont recover. People who are not put on ventilators actually seem to do better, much better than the people who were rushed to ventilators.
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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!