With over 80% NYC death rate some doctors moving away from ventilator treatment

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10 pointsjv222226 comments

Not Einsteins 'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result' comes to mind.

"Italy Cremona https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfkbv_WQtn0 Italy Bergamo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_suhYeWEcJg Two hospitals, not a single patient survived ventilation/ecmo to date" - that was almost a month ago. Even Chinese sources in February put patients requiring ventilators at <50% chance of survival.

But what should they do? Without vents, people suffocate to death.

I heard of a few different options one of which is injecting/transfusing oxygen directly into the blood somehow.

I hope someone knows more about this and can expand.

No Lungs Required: Injected Oxygen to Keep Patients Alive

Non invasive ventilation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g9e6YLBAvQ

The article gives you heaps of options -

"But increasingly, physicians are trying other measures first. One is having patients lie in different positions — including on their stomachs ......"

Or you let them suffocate to death. You are in a pandemic.

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