A strategy in treatment of acute lung injury (ALI) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) that consists in emphasizing natural inflammation resolution signaling pathways.
Tag: Mechanical ventilation
New York: Only 3% of COVID-19 patients on mechanical ventilation made it out of hospitals alive (as of April 4, 2020).
Invasive mechanical ventilation should NOT be used as an outcome in clinical trials.
Malpractice in hospitals is at such a high level that hospitals became dystopian places.
Physiological Literacy on mechanical ventilation in COVID-19: “Only a small proportion of patients—largely those in a cardiac arrest situation—“require” mechanical ventilation.”
Pulmonologist Michael J. Tobin: “Once a patient is placed on a ventilator, the key challenge is to avoid complications.
Mechanical ventilation (in and of itself) does not produce lung healing—it merely keeps patients alive until their own biological mechanisms are able to outwit the coronavirus.
The best way to minimize ventilator-associated complications is to avoid intubation unless it is absolutely necessary.
The surest way to increase Covid-19 mortality is liberal use of intubation and mechanical ventilation.