Serious question: How do we know it isn’t ventilator misuse that is jacking up the death rate? Has that speculation been debunked?https://twitter.com/drdanchoi/status/1254645839403847682 …
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Italians have a legitimate concern, it seems: "The transition from Type L to Type H may be due to the evolution of the COVID-19 pneumonia on one hand and the injury attributable to high-stress ventilation on the other." https://www.esicm.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/684_author-proof.pdf …
Exactly, Scott. We first must DISPROVE the null hypothesis. We shouldn't be afraid of that.
We harmed many patients with acute lung injury for decades by using too much ventilator volume and pressure for those injured lungs. In 2000 this was published showing significantly lower mortality with lower than traditional ventilator volumes.
It took more years before this became the norm. And this newer norm may still be too much volume for covid-lung.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/10793162 …
Can it not just be a continuum? They intobate to keep them alive. No intubation=death. How many would actually be on vents to early or at wrong pressure? Best Docs are questioning protocols. See ER Doc who mentions altitude sickness in popular video
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