Do COVID-19 Ventilation Protocols Need a Second Look?
Published April 13, 2020 | Best in Video
So you’ve been talking a lot about the number of patients, the percentage of patients actually, that are dying on ventilators. When
did you first notice this trend? So in preparation of opening what
became a full COVID positive intensive care unit, I scoured the data to
see what was out there and, obviously, those that have experienced it
before us, primarily the Chinese and the Italians, it was hard to find
the rate of what we call successful extubation… meaning someone was put
on a ventilator and taken
off. That data is still hard to find, and I imagine there’s a lot of people still on ventilators, but from the data we have available it appears to be somewhere between 50 and 90 percent, and it seems that most reports or published data put it around 70 percent. That’s a very very high percentage, in general, when one thinks of a medical disease.
off. That data is still hard to find, and I imagine there’s a lot of people still on ventilators, but from the data we have available it appears to be somewhere between 50 and 90 percent, and it seems that most reports or published data put it around 70 percent. That’s a very very high percentage, in general, when one thinks of a medical disease.
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