Do COVID-19 Vent Protocols Need a Second Look? NYC doctor speaks up

[flamingdem]

After treating patients with COVID-19, a New York city physician suggests ventilator protocols may need revisiting. He's questioning protocols and has had to step down from the ICU and work in the emergency room due to not agreeing with ventilation strategies. He's not a pulmonologist but wants to open peoples minds. 50-80% of patients in NYC are dying while on the ventilators.

** I have no idea if this is valid, some are saying it's a conspiracy theory, we'll see


Video with the doctor at the link:

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/928156

Dr. Mark Cameron Kyle-Sidell MD:

"Treating ards in high compliance disease may not be operating
under the right paradigm".

"This may be an entirely new disease" - (NOT A.R.D.S.)

[dhol82]

1. I had heard that 50% of the people on ventilators end up dying

It’s a nature of the severity of the illness and the debility of the patient.

It will be interesting to see where this goes.

[flamingdem]

2. Some on his twitter feed are saying he's a conspiracy theorist

I have no idea.

[Ms. Toad]

3. You're the second person I've seen present the video as suggesting something nefarious

I haven't seen anything in it other than the observation I've heard from many medical professionals - that this disease is different, and that venting them is not saving lives so maybe we need to treat it differently.

The observation that may not A.R.D.S. is kind of a duh observation to me. A syndrome is a collection of symptoms that are not necessarily tied to a specific disease. This is a new disease. We're treating it (currently) as we would treat A.R.D.S - since the presentation is similar to that syndrome. It is pretty obviously not working - so se need to figure out what does work to treat teh symptoms this disease creates.

I'm not seeing conspiracy theory. Just observations that this is new and different - which it is.