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All ventilators have the same settings, ecmo was ruled out for use in covid pts as the lungs were fibrinous and non compliant and only a lung transplant would help, when we stopped using hcq and went to remdesivir more died. CRRT or chronic renal replacement therapy only helps clear the blood of contaminants and fluid. It does nothing for lungs that have no compliance.In Queens, the borough with the most coronavirus cases and the fewest hospital beds per capita, hundreds of patients languished in understaffed wards, often unwatched by nurses or doctors. Some died after removing oxygen masks to go to the bathroom.
- Published July 1, 2020Updated Sept. 22, 2021
In hospitals in impoverished neighborhoods around the boroughs, some critically ill patients were put on ventilator machines lacking key settings, and others pleaded for experimental drugs, only to be told that there were none available.
It was another story at the private medical centers in Manhattan, which have billions of dollars in endowments and cater largely to wealthy people with insurance. Patients there got access to heart-lung bypass machines and specialized drugs like remdesivir, even as those in the city’s community hospitals were denied more basic treatments like continuous dialysis.
You keep posting this same article as proof and it’s full of misinformation.