Thread by @med1cinewoman

#COVID19, ARDS and Ventilators.
People with long-term chronic conditions, cardio-vascular diseases, pulmonary insufficiency, asthma, COPD, pneumonia who have been on toxic drugs for years, maybe decades fall into the high risk group.

Those diagnosed with #COVID19 and subjected to mechanical ventilation may in fact suffer serious lung injury. Too much oxygen and pressure could easily stress out the lungs, lead to pulmonary collapse and death.

These deaths will be filed as "#COVID19" and added to the stats to support the deadly nature of this virus. Medical errors and harmful treatments remain ignored and/or re-classified. Case closed.

The potential for mechanical ventilation to cause harm was first described in the mid-18th century.
“The lungs of one man may bear, without injury, as great a force as those of another man can exert; which by the bellows cannot always be determined”. - John Fothergill

Over 250 years later, ventilator-induced lung injury was proven definitively to contribute to mortality in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).

#Coronavirus: Chinese ventilator makers working ‘around the clock’ amid global shortage
scmp.com/news/china/soc…

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During first 3wks of the Covid19 outbreak in the Seattle,the most common reasons for admission to ICU were hypoxemic respiratory failure leading to mechanical ventilation,hypotension requiring vasopressor treatment,or both.Mortality among these critically ill patients was high.

Covid-19 in Critically Ill Patients in the Seattle Region — Case Series.
nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…