mostly this is inside baseball for the whole #buildventilators thing. I'm using the same terminology doctors do.
this post was about lots of diseases that make you not able to breathe. if you put these people on non-invasive ventilators some of them are gonna fail -- and now you need doctors and nurses and beepy things and sharp knives and, worst case scenario, you don't have those things.
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but how often is the non-invasive ventilator gonna fail? and how often is it good enough and you're fine? I looked at ALL THE STUDIES I could find and it looks like you're fine 85% of the time.
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(don't take that 85% too literally. all the published studies are still in hospitals, still with doctors. no RCTs are conducted in pandemic apocalypse hell-world. if we're in hell-world your chances are probably worse than 85%. but hopefully better than 0?!?)
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