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In reply to the discussion: Duncan is now on a ventilator [View all]Barack_America
(28,876 posts)I would've wanted to keep this guy in the ICU, fully lined up, and thus technically "critical". Not only because I would fear he could crash at any moment, but this would be the last guy I would want to scramble to get a line in if he did. From what I've read about the pathophysiology of Ebola, this tends to be the point in the infection where massive lymphocytic lysis occurs, which made my eyebrows raise when I heard he went on the vent. Hopefully just to rest him and his kidneys are holding up. And his liver too, ugh. Nasty, nasty disease, it apparently even triggers an adrenal insufficient state.
So that's ID, critical care, nephrology, heme/onc, GI and endocrinology. Any of the medicine sub specialties NOT going to be consulted on this guy?
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