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Sounds like a promising strategy to manage patients, assuming the hospital has the necessary negative pressure rooms, etc. Especially since ventilators don’t ev
by 40four 6y ago
Sounds like a promising strategy to manage patients, assuming the hospital has the necessary negative pressure rooms, etc. Especially since ventilators don’t even seem to be very effective. We’ve been seeing stories last few days that the large majority (88%) of folks put on ventilators in NYC, end up dying.
- joshgel 6y agoThat 88% number is pretty misleading. They only looked at: (number of patients who died) / (number of patients who died + number of patients discharged alive). And didn't consider the other patients on ventilators who are still alive, but still in the hospital (many likely no longer on ventilators). Don't get me wrong, the fatality rate for intubated patients is going to be high. but probably more like 40-60%.
- maxerickson 6y agoBe careful with that number. It's 88% of the cases that had resolved after ~4.5-5 days, which was only 25% of the cases included in the study. If there is some bias in the study population, the overall rate can change quite a lot (for example, a possibility is that the weakest patients succumb in that period, with stronger patients coming off the ventilators after a longer period...).
- W_G_T 6y agoThey converted the entire MICU (24 beds) to negative pressure rooms.