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Posted by Charles G on Sat Apr 4 18:28:20 2020 We've heard all the discussions of ventilator shortages and ventilator emergency production. With that in mind, I found the following to be interesting...A friend shared with me today that at one local tri-state area hospital, they have not had a single Covid-19 patient that went on a ventilator and survived. Zero. While some are still on the machines, their prognosis is not good. That seemed shocking to me, but upon further research it seems that such an outcome at one hospital should not be surprising at all. In the limited statistical undertakings that I was able to find, it seems the survival rate for ventilated patients is well below 50% -- around 33% in a few studies and sometimes far lower. The NPR link below combined with the WaPo link below lead to a disturbing question. The NPR link notes the very low success rate for ventilators and also notes that the time on ventilators with Covid-19 is quite long. The WaPo article notes that the longer you are on a ventilator the worse your future quality of life is. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/02/826105278/ventilators-are-no-panacea-for-critically-ill-covid-19-patients https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/03/coronavirus-survivors-recovery/ https://www.physiciansweekly.com/mortality-rate-of-covid-19-patients-on-ventilators/ |
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