Who could have predicted?
20 Likes
well, yes and no.
Grant was chosen as one of the very few patients who could potentially benefit from ECMO support because he was relatively young, active and had no underlying health conditions.
âWhy it seems to be worse for some patients we just donât know. But the big thing weâve learnt is to keep going and we will have some patients that will survive.â
âEven at day 120 the team are still working wonderfully well together to give me the best outcome that I can possibly achieveââ he says.
pumping out the co2 from your blood so you donât have to breathe is awesome. very cool technology too. itâs also still a very small percentage of people, and a very long difficult path to recovery.
you probably also need very good insurance or a national health system for it to apply. 
13 Likes
1 Like
Camp A adhered to the measures in Georgiaâs Executive Order* that allowed overnight camps to operate beginning on May 31, including requiring all trainees, staff members, and campers to provide documentation of a negative viral SARS-CoV-2 test â¤12 days before arriving. Camp A adopted mostâ components of CDCâs Suggestions for Youth and Summer Camps§ to minimize the risk for SARS-CoV-2 introduction and transmission. Measures not implemented were cloth masks for campers and opening windows and doors for increased ventilation in buildings. Cloth masks were required for staff members. Camp attendees were cohorted by cabin and engaged in a variety of indoor and outdoor activities, including daily vigorous singing and cheering.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/05/us/georgia-ymca-camp-coronavirus/index.html
14 Likes
ECMO stands for ExtraCorporeal Membane Oxygenation. It is a heart-lung machine pretty much like what they use in cardiac surgeries, except for much longer duration. It works great, but comes with enormous side effects, like numerous ministrokes. You have to be completely anticoaggulated so as not to clot ff the lines and the machine. Any injury bleeds pretty much forever. You are, of course, in the ICU for the duration, and the cost is astronomical. Plus most hospitals will only have a couple of units, each of which is manned 24/7 by 2 dedicated ECMO techs. This is the technology that in Oregon during their crisis had criteria set (BMI<25, age<40, etc.) to maximize the benefits. It is absolutely not broadly applicable.
20 Likes
ahhhhhhg.
really, thatâs about all i have to say.
12 Likes
And this:
7 Likes
right!? sing to yourself kids. regardless of the psa on handwashing.
turns out monty python was the nostradamus of our time. ;0
6 Likes
Go ahead and add 6 months to any vaccine predictions.
19 Likes
In this country.
The reality is, weâre going to be thanking China for their vaccines long before the U.S. stops stepping on its own shoelaces.
18 Likes
This will serve to normalize the sight of the military operating on US soil, while distributing them around the country in case they are needed to quell any violent protests.
"I donât see how we can work out the details more than we have been,â the official said, adding that it would allow the Trump administration âto address all of those different contingencies based on the vaccine as we learn which vaccine works best for which type of person.â
Oh, okay. It certainly makes no sense to use valuable vaccines willy-nilly on the wrong kind of person.
12 Likes
âThe dad had passed away probably four months ago, and the mom had passed away two months before that,â he recalled. âSo the kids were just trying to make their way, and there was nobody that was really helping them.
18 Likes
I donât much care for the aides and interns who chose to work for a man who puts his potlical statments above their health. But I feel bad for the support staff. The article I read had some quotes from ITS. I doubt those positions are political. The cleaning crew and food service employees are almost certainly not and they are being exposed too.
13 Likes
Shocker:
In mid-July, the Trump administration instructed hospitals to change the way they reported data on their coronavirus patients, promising the new approach would provide better, more up-to-the-minute information about the virusâs toll and allow resources and supplies to be quickly dispatched across the country.
Instead, the move has created widespread confusion, leaving some states in the dark about their hospitalsâ remaining bed and intensive care capacity and, at least temporarily, removing this information from public view. As a result, it has been unclear how many people are in hospitals being treated for COVID-19 at a time when the number of infected patients nationally has been soaring.
10 Likes
Anybody shocked? No one? Ah, well.
19 Likes
7 Likes
Might I recommend a light course of Duck and Cover?
10 Likes
Fixed.
12 Likes
Back-peddle: He wasnât saying kick them out now, he was just asking questions.
16 Likes
Cancel Culture run amok!
7 Likes
