One reason is that contrary to expectations, a number of doctors at New York hospitals believe intubation is helping fewer people with Covid-19 than other respiratory illnesses and that longer stays on the mechanical ventilators lead to other serious complications. The matter is far from settled.
“Intubated patients with Covid lung disease are doing very poorly, and while this may be the disease and not the mechanical ventilation, most of us believe that intubation is to be avoided until unequivocally required,” Dr. Strayer said.
Between 50-88% of Patients who require Ventilators didn't make it. <New York>
In comparison, Civil War surgeons had mortality rates of ~25-30%.. in the 1860s
//Gasp...!!
From a German Article (on Covid Autopsies):
The majority of the patients were very overweight, says the expert
In Switzerland, pathologists, depending on the equipment of the autopsy rooms and "depending on the courage", have so far autopsied, as Alexandar Tzankov says, head of the autopsy department at the university hospital in Basel. So far 20 people who died of Covid 19 have been autopsied there, and Tzankov already wants to recognize patterns in the diagnoses. "All those examined had high blood pressure," says the professor, "a large proportion of the patients were also severely obese, ie clearly overweight. And it was mainly men. More than two thirds had previously damaged coronary arteries, a third had diabetes.
In addition to clarifying the previous illnesses, the doctors around Tzankov also examined damage to the lung tissue of the deceased. "Few patients had pneumonia," he says, "but what we saw under the microscope was a serious disruption to the lung's microcirculation." That means that the oxygen exchange no longer works, and explain the difficulties in ventilating Covid-19 patients in the intensive care units: "You can give the patient as much oxygen as you want, and he will simply not be transported any further. " It is unclear whether the findings could have been taken into account earlier in the treatment of intensive care patients.
From a German Article (on Covid Autopsies):
I read a similar cautionary article elsewhere
From a German Article (on Covid Autopsies):
Do you have a link to the original? I'd be interested as I tried searching and all I could find was a single English article but searching for names and quotes didn't return anything else.
Here is another clear and concise explanation that I just came across:
https://www.livescience.com/silent-hypoxia-killing-covid-19-coronavirus-patients.html (https://www.livescience.com/silent-hypoxia-killing-covid-19-coronavirus-patients.html)
Just measured, Tp4 @ 98% oxygenation.
On the latest Samsung Health software update, the Oxygenation is under the "Stress Measurement Tab"Show Image(https://i.imgur.com/RSB9WCf.gif)
Just measured, Tp4 @ 98% oxygenation.
On the latest Samsung Health software update, the Oxygenation is under the "Stress Measurement Tab"Show Image(https://i.imgur.com/RSB9WCf.gif)
I'm still rocking an S5 with daily builds of Lineage OS 16.0 (Android 9). I like having that IR blaster for turning on random crap in the district that I have no idea where a remote may be for it. I doubt it has that functionality. How would a phone even measure such a thing?
Just measured, Tp4 @ 98% oxygenation.
On the latest Samsung Health software update, the Oxygenation is under the "Stress Measurement Tab"Show Image(https://i.imgur.com/RSB9WCf.gif)
I'm still rocking an S5 with daily builds of Lineage OS 16.0 (Android 9). I like having that IR blaster for turning on random crap in the district that I have no idea where a remote may be for it. I doubt it has that functionality. How would a phone even measure such a thing?
Tp4 haz an S5 as well, just checked, it has the heart rate measurement, but no oxygenation.
But according to hardware specs, the part they used should be able to do both, the Note4 for example can do it and it has the same part.
Sooo... yea, seems like s6 or newer is required for the oxygenation feature.
Phones can do it because of Pulse oximetry, you have 2 leds one red, one infrared, and you have a photosensor assembly tuned to those wavelengths, and you can get penetrative reading on thin parts of skin, such as earlobes and fingers.
Interesting. It is too bad nobody seems to make phones with features people want/need anymore. It would be just my luck that my phone of choice is the cutoff in the Samsung line to help detect Covid difficulties.
Interesting. It is too bad nobody seems to make phones with features people want/need anymore. It would be just my luck that my phone of choice is the cutoff in the Samsung line to help detect Covid difficulties.
Hahahahaha. just buy a meter off amazon dawg.. The budget ones run $20-30, xpensive one ~$50..
Sigh.... If only we both had 2080Tis, the world would be right.
UV wands.
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/coronavirus-covid-19-tote-1.4884154
https://www.livescience.com/silent-hypoxia-killing-covid-19-coronavirus-patients.html (https://www.livescience.com/silent-hypoxia-killing-covid-19-coronavirus-patients.html)
I am wondering how I would fare in this situation. I have a hereditary blood disorder that makes my resting O2 saturation in the 70% range (I've seen it as low as 50%), but it causes no deleterious effects. I don't know if my adaptation to low blood oxygen would help me resist death or if this disease would just make my O2 saturation go *even lower* and just outright kill me.
I am wondering how I would fare in this situation. I have a hereditary blood disorder that makes my resting O2 saturation in the 70% range (I've seen it as low as 50%), but it causes no deleterious effects. I don't know if my adaptation to low blood oxygen would help me resist death or if this disease would just make my O2 saturation go *even lower* and just outright kill me.