Ventilators don't work. Period. This is an attack on your red blood cells. It doesn't matter if you're in a hyperbaric chamber at a few atmospheres with 100% oxygen if your blood cells can't even carry a sufficient amount. If you're letting a pt get that far, you've fucked up and completely misunderstand COVID-19.
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23305495? ago
We need ventilators.
23312512? ago
No, no we don’t .
23313997? ago
Will you choose who lives and who dies.
23328334? ago
That's not the problem.
Ventilators don't work. Period. This is an attack on your red blood cells. It doesn't matter if you're in a hyperbaric chamber at a few atmospheres with 100% oxygen if your blood cells can't even carry a sufficient amount. If you're letting a pt get that far, you've fucked up and completely misunderstand COVID-19.
This person sums it up quite nicely: https://web.archive.org/web/20200405061401/https://medium.com/@agaiziunas/covid-19-had-us-all-fooled-but-now-we-might-have-finally-found-its-secret-91182386efcb