Interesting. This has been done before (after LV shooting) but has conventionally been considered as an intervention suitable for treating mass trauma. That's b

Interesting. This has been done before (after LV shooting) but has conventionally been considered as an intervention suitable for treating mass trauma. That's because people who are otherwise in good health are easier to ventilate than people with stiff, non-compliant lungs caused by inflammatory viral ARDS. Ventilating people with ARDS is hard. You have to use low, carefully considered tidal volumes and essentially allow the patient to be hypercapnic (CO2 higher than ideal), sometimes quite severely. You're doing a delicate dance between ventilating in a way the lungs can take and maintaining blood gases compatible with life.