I appreciate the effort, but it looks like we aren't going to need nearly as many ventilators as expected because COVID lung problems are different than other lung conditions and seem not to respond well to invasive ventilation.
The video in particular is telling, highlighting the difficulty in getting a hospital to change what is considered the standard procedure in the face of new conditions (told by a frontline doc).
We are going to be up to our eyeballs in excess ventilators. Maybe they'll be handy for the next pandemeic ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elgct0nOcKY
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ventil...
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/22/health/coronavirus-ventilator...
The video in particular is telling, highlighting the difficulty in getting a hospital to change what is considered the standard procedure in the face of new conditions (told by a frontline doc).
We are going to be up to our eyeballs in excess ventilators. Maybe they'll be handy for the next pandemeic ...