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At the age of 90, your lungs are too fragile to be put on a ventilator. It was one of the reasons academics overestimated the number of ventilators required for
by oxfordmale 6y ago
At the age of 90, your lungs are too fragile to be put on a ventilator. It was one of the reasons academics overestimated the number of ventilators required for COVID.
- lagadu 6y agoToo fragile for a ventilator but not too fragile for ecmo.
- exdsq 6y agoThis isn't a hard-set rule, just an extra factor in triage Edit: Do you work at the JR by any chance? Asking as another Oxford Male based nearby! https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/60/1/129/533726 https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/60/1/129/...
- KaiserPro 6y agoits really not that simple, it turned out that the stats we were working from were wrong (well done china...) but also ventilators are not great for covid patients. Its much better to slap them with oxygen.