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Reply to "Is the COVID-19 "ventilator" a euphemism for polio's "iron lung machine?""
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Intubation with external ventilation is our generation’s iron lung. Patients are placed in a coma for it, because they shove a tube into your respiratory tract. [/quote] And perhaps this is what is behind the high mortality since ventilators carry TONS Of their own native risks. There are better ventilators, but the question is.. do we have them? Are we using them?.. Non-invasive ventilation refers to ventilatory support without tracheal intubation. ... [b]Ventilation through a nasal or face mask may avoid the need for intubation, especially in exacerbations of chronic obstructive airways disease.[/b] Some patients with chronic ventilatory failure rely on long term non-invasive ventilation. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1116024/[/quote]
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