even worse: we're gonna run out of people who know how to put you on a ventilator there are not enough nurses and doctors not even close so even if you build moar ventilators that might not be enough
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maybe there's a kind of ventilator you don't have to be a doctor to use? we could maybe build more of those? those are the non-invasive ventilators. no sticking sharp blades down throats. no cutting holes in throats. no cutting holes anywhere.
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ok so: ventilators dum-dums can use. do they even work? that was this post: https://srconstantin.github.io/2020/03/20/non-invasive-ventilation.html … and the answer was "yeah usually."
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the big question is: if you don't have access to hospitals and medical professionals, is some kind of non-invasive, home-usable ventilator potentially better than *nothing*? it's not better than a hospital. but you might not have a hospital. (esp. if you're in a poor country.)
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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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no shit sherlock. but fewer dead people is good if we can get 'em.
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