By now they surely have to have a functioning karmavirus ward in the white house, or at least enough special equipment for him. I know they have the surgical capacity for someone giving birth so they might even be able to get him on an ECMO there.
With him visibly having difficulty breathing on the Eisenhower balcony and his warlock doctor dodging the question on lung damage, I'm optimistic that it's 1 or 2. He has so many cardiovascular risk factors and probably a history of strokes. Even if they use robocop medicine on him, his heart will be taxed and his arteries will be inflamed. That's putting me on standby to buy an ice cream cake.
Yep. I remember watching the vlog of an ICU nurse early on in the pandemic. She was describing how patients would go from treatment to treatment either failing to respond or the response not being enough. Eventually it'd be supplemental oxygen, then the ventilator, then the ECMO, and finally they'd just drown in blood. Who knows how likely that is for him because all the medical data we have is bullshit, but that's the natural course of it.
By now they surely have to have a functioning karmavirus ward in the white house, or at least enough special equipment for him. I know they have the surgical capacity for someone giving birth so they might even be able to get him on an ECMO there.
With him visibly having difficulty breathing on the Eisenhower balcony and his warlock doctor dodging the question on lung damage, I'm optimistic that it's 1 or 2. He has so many cardiovascular risk factors and probably a history of strokes. Even if they use robocop medicine on him, his heart will be taxed and his arteries will be inflamed. That's putting me on standby to buy an ice cream cake.
Are there any case studies on ECMO for covid?
Yep. I remember watching the vlog of an ICU nurse early on in the pandemic. She was describing how patients would go from treatment to treatment either failing to respond or the response not being enough. Eventually it'd be supplemental oxygen, then the ventilator, then the ECMO, and finally they'd just drown in blood. Who knows how likely that is for him because all the medical data we have is bullshit, but that's the natural course of it.
Christ. Even in end-stage CV patients WITHOUT an infectious virus the benefit to using one is nil without highly trained md/rn/therapy staff on floor
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