In NYC The hospital protocols in the early days was a one size fits all approach -
* if your blood oxygen level fell to a certain point, you were placed in a medically induced coma.
* this happened when you were all alone in the hospital with no one to advocate for you
* doctors in northern Italy, who made the same mistakes were telling us not to do this
* So many people were intubated that it got to the point where in some hospitals, there was a 1 Respiratory Therapist to 80 patients.
* Intubated patients were isolated, fed through feeding tubes leading out of the rooms and treatment for other illnesses like diabetes were ignored
* Many patients DEVELOPED kidney failure and pneumonia that didnt exist prior to hospitalization
when patients crashed, nurses were told not to chest compressions..
* These people died needlessly, alone and isolated from their families.
Someone should be held accountable... screw liability.. I want someone to be held criminally accountable.
https://academy.esicm.org/mod/emodulepage/view.php?id=7979
https://www.dentaquestpartnership.org/system/files/The
Link Between Ventilator Pneumonia and the Mouth.pdf
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04372576
And my personal favorite is the ensuing class action lawsuit:
https://www.gilmanbedigian.com/ventilator-associated-pneumonia