Invasive ventilation is a form of medical pseudoscience. While sometimes it's necessary (neck/abdominal surgery, etc), it causes tremendous barotrauma to patien

Invasive ventilation is a form of medical pseudoscience. While sometimes it's necessary (neck/abdominal surgery, etc), it causes tremendous barotrauma to patients' lungs, and should not be used to treat infections until randomized studies show that it's actually beneficial [0]. Someone should investigate how it came to be that anesthetizing COVID-19 patients and sticking a tube into their lungs was the standard treatment, until the front-line medical teams rebelled. [1] [0] https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/Ventilators-aren-t-a-panacea-for-a-pandemic-like-coronavirus https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/Ventilators-aren-t-a-pan... [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ventilators-specia/special-report-as-virus-advances-doctors-rethink-rush-to-ventilate-idUSKCN2251PE https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ventil...