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I’m OK. Thanks! Things are quite better, actually. Only intubating 2 or 3 people a day instead of 25. ICUs are emptying out a little more each day, so more are leaving than coming in.
Our ventilator mortality rate is turning out to be a lot better than it was before. It turns out, A bunch of people that were intubated 6 weeks ago, who didn’t die, are coming off the ventilator now. So instead of an 85% mortality rate for ventilated patients, it is more like a 70% mortality rate, and it may even go lower with time.
We are doing elective but urgent surgeries again, like cancer surgeries, spine surgeries, etc. Things are looking much better. I never want to do this again, so I really hope there is no fall resurgence.
I’m OK. Thanks! Things are quite better, actually. Only intubating 2 or 3 people a day instead of 25. ICUs are emptying out a little more each day, so more are leaving than coming in.
Our ventilator mortality rate is turning out to be a lot better than it was before. It turns out, A bunch of people that were intubated 6 weeks ago, who didn’t die, are coming off the ventilator now. So instead of an 85% mortality rate for ventilated patients, it is more like a 70% mortality rate, and it may even go lower with time.
We are doing elective but urgent surgeries again, like cancer surgeries, spine surgeries, etc. Things are looking much better. I never want to do this again, so I really hope there is no fall resurgence.
Oh that's good news. Glad to hear it. I think we're all hoping there's no second (or 3rd wave) but Fauci doesn't sound very hopeful.
Oh that's good news. Glad to hear it. I think we're all hoping there's no second (or 3rd wave) but Fauci doesn't sound very hopeful.
I’m hopeful, but realistically it is likely to happen again in the fall. At least we have a lot of time to prepare this time, and hopefully, we are better at treating it the second time around, rather than learning as we go, like we did this time.
Like I said, at least we know that if you make it past the first 2 or 3 weeks on the ventilator without going into multiorgan failure, your chances of surviving significantly increase. We are doing a lot of tracheostomies on all the patients that cant be extubated, but they seem stable now, and I think many of them will make it through this too.
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