1. Experts/media were wrong again. 2. Ventilators were adopted w/o a random control test but nobody complained because Trump didn’t praise the usage. https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1253210003231694850 …
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but COVID unique as in almost all other infectious causes of hypoxia, this resp failure is rapidly followed by septic shock and death. This “happy hypoxic” patient is somewhat rare and unique to COVID so we are slowly learning to dial back the trigger
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until 3 weeks ago the belief was holding off intubation was akin to withholding a parachute. In most other disease processes we see rapid shock->arrest within 1-2 hours. We still see it sometimes with COVID but it’s worth the trial for 1-2h.
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