Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[Lafiel]

JRPGfan said:

barneystinson69 said:
So its probably coin-toss odds that Boris Johnson makes it at this point?

Yikes. Really hoping he pulls through.

Apparently once your a week or so on ventilator your odds drop by alot.
I swear I remember hearing a doctor saying than more than 80% of patients that get on a ventilator (due to this virus), never leave it.

ventilating patients is a very risky and invasive last resort effort as the patients have to be sedated to stop their own breathing (would counter act the machine) - it also works in the opposite way to natural breathing (pushing oxygene in with overpressure, instead of sucking it in with underpressure) and this aswell as high oxygene saturations can destroy lunge tissue and especially harms elderly patients, which is why over 80y it's not clear if the treatment even improves ones survival chances even in very severe cases

Last edited by Lafiel - on 07 April 2020