Tag: Ventilators

From every early on in the COVID-19 emergency, leading lung specialists have been warning that invasive ventilation causes additional damage to the lungs. The most recent information shows that the outcome for seriously ill patients improved dramatically as doctors rejected the use of mechanical ventilators.

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Opinion Publications

Murder by Misinformation – Dr Janet Menage, BMJ

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 6 February 2021

This is a BMJ Rapid Response letter by Dr Janet Menage, Wales, UK, in response to Covid-19: Social murder, they wrote-elected, unaccountable, and unrepentant, by Kamran Abbasi. You can find the full response in the link below.

From a medical perspective, it was clear early on in the crisis that disregarding clinical acumen in favour of blind obedience to abnormal ventilation measures, reliance on an unsuitable laboratory test for diagnosis and management, and abandoning the duty of care to elderly hospitalised patients and those awaiting diagnosis and treatment of serious diseases, would create severe problems down the line.
Doctors who had empirically found effective pharmaceutical remedies and preventative treatments were ignored, or worse, denigrated or silenced. Information regarding helpful dietary supplements was suppressed.

https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n314/rr-8

Tags BMJ, Censorship, COVID-19, DNR, Dr. Janet Menage, Elderly, Experimental, Hospitals, Lockdown, Misdiagnosis, Modelling, Testing, Treatment, Ventilators, WHO

News

Hospitals Retreat From Early Covid Treatment and Return to Basics – WSJ

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 20 December 2020

Around one-third of hospital deaths during the initial COVID-19 peak were due to inappropriate treatment.

“We were intubating sick patients very early. Not for the patients’ benefit, but in order to control the epidemic & to save other patients,” Dr. Iwashyna said “That felt awful.”

…As a safety precaution, doctors and hospitals limited the access of health-care workers to coronavirus patients on ventilators, giving them fewer opportunities to check on them. That meant patients required more powerful sedatives to keep them from pulling out throat tubes.

…Overall, survival for Covid-19 patients increased 28% from April to September at HCA hospitals.

…Before the pandemic, between about 30% to more than 40% of ventilator patients died, according to research. Numbers were sharply higher in Wuhan, China. As the pandemic grew, hospitals in the U.S. reported death rates in some cases of about 50% for ventilated Covid-19 patients.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201220193305/https://www.wsj.com/articles/hospitals-retreat-from-early-covid-treatment-and-return-to-basics-11608491436

Tags Collateral Damage, COVID-19, Hysteria, Response, Side-effects, Treatment, USA, Ventilators, Wall Street Journal

News

Covid death rates dropped as doctors rejected ventilators – The Telegraph

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 4 September 2020

Death rates among seriously ill Covid-19 patients dropped sharply as doctors rejected the use of mechanical ventilators, analysis has found.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/09/03/covid-death-rates-dropped-doctors-rejected-ventilators/

Tags Collateral Damage, COVID-19, Mortality Rate, The Telegraph, Treatment, Ventilators

Videos

Perspectives on the Pandemic | The (Undercover) Epicenter Nurse | Episode Nine

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 11 June 2020

Non-COVID patients were put in with COVID patients, then marked with Do Not Resuscitate orders.
Hospitals have a financial incentive to mark patients as COVID-19.
Doctors stopped treating people as humans. Inexperienced doctors were practicing on patients.
COVID-19 has been proven to be easily treatable with the Hydroxychloroquine/Zinc/Antibiotic protocol
People were coming in too late due to fear.
Patients were unnecessarily put on ventilators. “They want to use the vents.”
Patients were put in restraints “due to laziness.”
New York may have been hit hard because their hospitals were already struggling. They couldn’t afford to keep them open.

Tags COVID-19, DNR, Elmhurst Hospital, Financial Incentives, Hospitals, Hydroxychloroquine, Hysteria, Journeyman Pictures, New York, Nurse Erin Marie Olszewski, USA, Ventilators, Whistleblowers

News

Are ventilators killing people? – Off-Guardian

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 6 May 2020

Intubation and ventilation were billed as the only way to treat Covid19 patients in the early days of the outbreak, but now some medical professionals are questioning the practice.

Perhaps it is not surprising, then, that according to this article 66% of UK Covid19 patients put on ventilators are dying. A recent study found that, in New York, 88% of ventilated Covid patients died. In Italy it was over 81%, in Wuhan it was 86%.

Conversely, South Korea has reported good early results treating Covid19 patients with other forms of oxygen therapy, or “non-invasive ventilation”.

The question arises: If ventilators are not recommended for respiratory infections, may do more damage than they prevent and are less effective than non-invasive ventilation, why are they being so widely used?

Well, one possible reason is that, according to the WHO guidelines, non-invasive ventilation could contribute to the spread of the virus via “aerosolisation”. This is repeated in guidelines from the CDC, ECDC and other national institutions.

The UK’s NHS goes one step further again, with their March 19th protocol actually calling mechanical ventilation the “preferred” option over non-invasive ventilation or other oxygen therapies.

This leaves wide open the possibility that hospitals are using treatments known to cause harm, simply to avoid the hypothetical spread of the virus.

COVID19: Are ventilators killing people?

Tags Avoidable Deaths, COVID-19, Dr Matt Strauss, Hospitals, NHS, Nightingale Hospital, Off-Guardian, Respiratory Tract, The Spectator, Treatment, Ventilators

News

Frontline nurse in New York claims the city is killing coronavirus patients by putting them on ventilators – Daily Mail

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 28 April 2020

A frontline nurse working in New York on coronavirus patients claims the city is killing sufferers by putting them on ventilators, advocating against them
The nurse persuaded a friend, a nurse practitioner who is not working on coronavirus patients, to make the video to get the word out
‘It’s a horror movie. Not because of the disease, but the way it is being handled,’ the frontline nurse said through the friend, who only was identified as Sara NP
Sara said COVID-19 patients are placed on ventilators rather than less invasive CPAP or BiPAP machines due to fears about the virus spreading
She explained: ‘The ventilators have high pressure, which then causes barotrauma, it causes trauma to the lungs’
More than 12,000 people have died from the virus in NYC, with another 4,300 dying in other parts of the Empire State
New York emergency room doctor Cameron Kyle-Sidell stepped down this month because he didn’t want to follow the hospital’s ventilator protocol
Republican Minnesota Senator Scott Jensen told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham that Medicare pays hospitals three times as much if patients are placed on ventilators

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8262351/Nurse-New-York-claims-city-killing-COVID-19-patients-putting-ventilators.html

Tags Collateral Damage, COVID-19, Daily Mail, Financial Incentives, New York, Response, USA, Ventilators, Whistleblowers

News

As virus advances, doctors rethink rush to ventilate – Reuters

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 28 April 2020

The 48-year-old physician, father of two and aspiring triathlete worried that an invasive ventilator would be harmful. But soon after entering the clinic, Bergmann said, he struggled to breathe even with an oxygen mask, and felt so sick the ventilator seemed inevitable.

Even so, his doctors never put him on a machine that would breathe for him. A week later, he was well enough to go home.

Bergmann’s case illustrates a shift on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, as doctors rethink when and how to use mechanical ventilators to treat severe sufferers of the disease – and in some cases whether to use them at all. While initially doctors packed intensive care units with intubated patients, now many are exploring other options.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-ventilators-specia/special-report-as-virus-advances-doctors-rethink-rush-to-ventilate-idUKKCN2251ST

Tags COVID-19, Reuters, Treat, Treatment, Ventilators

News Videos

No scientific proof social distancing prevents spread of COVID-19 – Professor Joel Hay, USC

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 23 April 2020

COVID-19 is very infectious but causes no symptoms in most people.
New York disaster is due to use of ventilators.
80% of pregnant women were COVID-19 positive but not a single baby died due to COVID-19.
Do what we always do: isolate the frail and sick but don’t isolate the young and healthy.
Getting herd immunity is how we’ve solved the problem in the past.
Social distancing is destroying millions of lives and killing 100 people for every one it saves.