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What I have read is that unlike typical ARDS cases where the lungs are failing, full of fluid and the patient can’t breathe, that Covid 19 patients can often br
by empath75 7y ago
What I have read is that unlike typical ARDS cases where the lungs are failing, full of fluid and the patient can’t breathe, that Covid 19 patients can often breathe fine, and don’t have a lot of obvious lung damage, but their oxygen levels are dropping to dangerous levels, perhaps because of something that covid 19 is doing to blood vessels in the lungs that prevents oxygen uptake. One doctor likened it to high altitude sickness.
What they are suggesting is to put patients on oxygen or low pressure ventilation first.
- jl2718 7y agoCan you get me a source on that phenomenon please. I'm working on an unrelated project with the inventor of a drug that can help with this.
- jacobolus 7y agoThe doctor who has been most in the news about this in the US is Cameron Kyle-Sidell https://twitter.com/cameronks https://twitter.com/cameronks https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNgMagm3-NwKdfGiXp8WILg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNgMagm3-NwKdfGiXp8WILg https://thinkingcriticalcare.com/2020/03/28/covid-clinical-discussion-w-cameron-kyle-sidell-nyc-ed-icu-doc-in-the-trenches-foamed/ https://thinkingcriticalcare.com/2020/03/28/covid-clinical-d... https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/928156 https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/928156 * * * Here’s a preprint from Italian doctors Gattinoni & al. in the journal Intensive Care Medicine https://www.esicm.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/684_author-proof.pdf https://www.esicm.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/684_author-...
- DoreenMichele 7y agoYou might also be interested in this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22840057 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22840057
- ramraj07 7y agoSomeone posted this above and it's fascinating - https://mailchi.mp/e10a89ac5988/tz4idnzryr-4388986?e=96507de8e5 https://mailchi.mp/e10a89ac5988/tz4idnzryr-4388986?e=96507de...
- eternauta3k 7y agoInteresting, where did you hear this? What I heard in Peter Attia's podcast is that the lung fills with fluid.