While ventilators can be lifesaving for severe COVID-19 patients, new data has some doctors worried that the machines could be causing further damage
But some doctors are growing increasingly concerned about how well they work — as well as whether the ventilators may actually cause additional lung damage.You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications.
New data on ventilator use in two of the hardest-hit locations, New York City and Wuhan, China, found that far more patients are dying than expected — despite attempts to save them with a ventilator.the Associated Press reported . Yet so far, in New York City, 80 percent or more of the COVID-19 patients put on ventilators have died. And a small study of the patients on ventilators in Wuhan found that 86 percent had died. Numbers out of the U.K. are slightly more promising, with 66 percent dying.
Experts told the AP that they don’t yet know the reason for the higher numbers, and that it may be due to other factors, such as a patient’s preexisting conditions and how sick they were prior to going on a ventilator.
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