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[1] https://www.ortenaukreis.de/Politik-Verwaltung/Verwaltung/Si...
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The question is, why is the death rate of ventilated patients so high? I would guess that it simply doesn’t fix the underlying issue. A hypothesis (just a simulation model, totally unproven): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22794837
A former registered nurse once told me that heart problems typically start as lung problems. Heart stress isn't at all unusual with lung distress. The two systems very much work together. I have serious lung problems and I used to have arhythmia. I don't have arhythmia anymore. I'm generally healthier than I used to be. I don't know why the death rate on ventilators is so high. I'm not inclined to do a lot of specula…
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Interesting points, thank you. I previously mostly had the death rate for "ordinary" ICU admissions in mind, which were 50%. Didn't know that once you are you are connected a ventilator, you have a 80% death rate. To compare the effect of ventilators vs none, one needs good studies with randomized groups where one gets ventilators and the other doesn't. But I guess those aren't available and doing them is probably no…
I have a really serious lung condition. I used to use mechanical intervention to treat my condition. I have found other methods and no longer do that, in part because such interventions are hard to keep adequately sterile and are known to increase risk of antibiotic resistant infections because of that element. It's really not good to think of this problem space in terms of finding some group without ventilators at a…
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A former registered nurse once told me that heart problems typically start as lung problems. Heart stress isn't at all unusual with lung distress. The two systems very much work together. I have serious lung problems and I used to have arhythmia. I don't have arhythmia anymore. I'm generally healthier than I used to be. I don't know why the death rate on ventilators is so high. I'm not inclined to do a lot of specula…
Not having any real medical knowledge, just as a logical speculation, there is always the possibilitly, that at the point, where people get put on the ventilators, the infection has come to a point where the survivability is extremely low.
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I have a really serious lung condition. I used to use mechanical intervention to treat my condition. I have found other methods and no longer do that, in part because such interventions are hard to keep adequately sterile and are known to increase risk of antibiotic resistant infections because of that element. It's really not good to think of this problem space in terms of finding some group without ventilators at a…
How is you experience with oxygen? I can imagine it helps without stress to the lungs, which lung ventilators might introduce?
A downside of oxygen is that it's very flammable. Also, to whatever degree it involves a cannula, masks, etc, it has some of the same issues in terms of sterility challenges.
I've generally relied on things like airway clearance and dietary intervention in recent years.
Probably from the same data source(DIVI Intensivregister/RKI): https://diviexchange.z6.web.core.windows.net/report.html
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Thank you. The translation I saw described yellow as something like "emerging bottlenecks." There seem to be a lot of them in Bavaria, where I have relatives.
My Bavarian hospital is on there as yellow. I'm currently sitting in the empty urgent care clinic and just had a chat with the nurse from the almost empty emergency room about the fact that both the COVID-19 ward and the ICU are far from capacity. Not really sure why we're yellow, to be honest.
According to the district office there are 778 cases in the district of Ortenau right now [1]. Curiously the map colors indicate shortages in several places but checking the individual clinics yield 0 cases. [1] https://www.ortenaukreis.de/Politik-Verwaltung/Verwaltung/Si...
According to the district office there are 778 cases in the district of Ortenau right now [1]. Curiously the map colors indicate shortages in several places but checking the individual clinics yield 0 cases. [1] https://www.ortenaukreis.de/Politik-Verwaltung/Verwaltung/Si...