#Ventilator Alert: #NYC #doctor issues a #warning to all #healthcare #providers

by: Sara Middleton, staff writer | April 17, 2020

 

(NaturalHealth365) From the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine to media outlets like the New York Times, Washington Post, and USA Today, news is rampant about ventilator shortages in the United States as hospitals around the country care for critically ill patients with COVID-19.

And it’s not just ventilators – there are also reported concerns about a shortage of healthcare providers who are trained to manage ventilated patients, plus a shortage of drugs required for ventilator use, including sedatives, painkillers, and paralytics.

But some health experts are starting to ask: is the use of a ventilator truly evidence-based in the fight against COVID-19?  Are these breathing machines – intended to help reverse low blood oxygen levels (hypoxia) – actually helpful, or could they be causing unnecessary lung damage?

In other words, could less invasive interventions be more effective at restoring healthy lungs?

Are ventilators doing more harm than good? NYC critical care physician urges medical professionals to reconsider use of these machines for COVID-19 patients

A ventilator is a medical machine that helps a person breathe and ensures enough oxygen gets into the person’s blood, cells, tissues, and organs. Depending on the settings used (and on the needs of the patient), a ventilator may take partial or complete control over a person’s breathing by putting pressure on the lungs to help open up the small air-filled sacs inside (alveoli).

The machine features tubes which are attached to a person’s airway via a tightly fitted mask or a tube inserted down the patient’s throat.

The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, is believed to attack healthy lungs and render them ineffective at transferring oxygen from the lungs into the blood. This is thought to trigger respiratory failure

Are #Ventilators #Killing More People Than They’re #Saving?

Confucius Is Winning the Covid-19 War

By Pepe Escobar, April 14, 2020

Seoul went for fast mobilization of scientific expertise, immediate massive testing, extensive contact tracing, and social distancing, as well. But, crucially, most of it voluntary, not imposed by the central power. Because these moves were organically integrated, South Korea did not need to restrict movement drastically or to close down airports.

Hong Kong’s success is due in large part to a superb health care system. People in the frontline, with institutional memory of recent epidemics such as SARS, were willing to go on strike if serious measures were not adopted. Success was also due in large part to myriad professional links between Hong Kong’s and Taiwan’s healthcare and public health systems.

 

What Dr. Anthony Fauci Hopes to Never Hear Again: “I’m Shaking It, Boss”

By Edward Curtin, April 14, 2020

Brave and cool-handed doctor that he is, he must be sweating now, wondering if getting so

The #BiggerPicture Is #Hiding #Behind A #Virus

Critical Shortage of Ventilators and Protective Gear Persists

By Stephen Lendman, April 03, 2020

Governor of hard-hit NY state Anthony Cuomo stressed that if a patient “needs a ventilator” and they’re all in use because of an insufficient supply, “the person dies” from suffocation. That’s the disturbing reality of a critical national shortage at a time when they’re vitally needed. As daily COVID-19 infections increase exponentially in the US, numbers on Friday will way exceed 250,000 by day’s end.

 

Can We Trust the WHO?

By F. William Engdahl, April 03, 2020

The most influential organization in the world with nominal responsibility for global health and epidemic issues is the United Nations’ World Health Organization, WHO, based in Geneva. What few know is the actual mechanisms of its political control, the shocking conflicts of interest, corruption and lack of transparency that permeate the agency that is supposed to be the impartial guide for getting through the current COVID-19 pandemic. The following is only part of what has come to public light.

 

COVID-19: Cover for Military Attack on Iran and Iraq?

By Kurt Nimmo, April 03, 2020

Now that the American people are consumed with fear and loathing of an overblown virus