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A majority of patients with covid are NOT intubated because of a little cough. In fact, most covid positive patients are sent home if at all possible and told to quarantine there. Patients that are intubated are spiraling into respiratory failure. In noncovid patients there are cases where non invasive measures may be used to avoid it. A bridge such has a high flow cannula or BiPAP/CPAP are normally used for this purpose. These bridges are not contraindicated in covid patients because of a cough. It's because those modalities are aerosol generating. Nebulized treatments are also contraindicated in favor of inhalers for this same reason. The helmet CPAP seen in pictures from Italian ICU also mitigate the leakage of aerosol but are not FDA approved, so they are not in use in the US.
I'm not going to go into the strategies for mechanical ventilation of a covid patient here, but they require aggressive settings and vigilant monitoring due to the dangerously high pressures exerted on the lungs.
@Gruber The high acuity and speed in which covid patients can reach a very sick state is what makes covid so dangerous
I'm not going to go into the strategies for mechanical ventilation of a covid patient here, but they require aggressive settings and vigilant monitoring due to the dangerously high pressures exerted on the lungs.
@Gruber The high acuity and speed in which covid patients can reach a very sick state is what makes covid so dangerous
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