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Are ICUs even helpful against the disease? I wonder if any triage experiments are being run with randomization.
by dr_dshiv 7y ago
Are ICUs even helpful against the disease? I wonder if any triage experiments are being run with randomization.
- lultimouomo 7y agoWhen you have ADRS ICU treatement is pretty much the only thing keeping you alive. "Randomized trial" in this context means russian roulette - if you don't get a ventilator you'll die almost certainly. Evidence [0] (partly based on COVID-19, parly on MERS) also says that NIV has a significantly worse outcome than ventilation. People are already getting NIV in some hospitals because they ran out of tubed ventilators. [0] https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/clinical-management-of-novel-cov.pdf?sfvrsn=bc7da517_6&download=true https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/clinica...