<story><title>Some doctors moving away from ventilators for virus patients</title><url>https://apnews.com/8ccd325c2be9bf454c2128dcb7bd616d</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>carbocation</author><text>There is a lot of misinformation about COVID-19 lung disease.  This article&amp;#x27;s title is alarming, but most of its content is mainstream. Lung protective ventilation - the standard approach for ARDS (which COVID-19 seems to cause) - avoids high pressure and high volume ventilation.&lt;p&gt;Broadly, I would suggest that interested people read Corey Hardin&amp;#x27;s response to the cacophony of voices saying that COVID-19 respiratory failure is not ARDS: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mailchi.mp&amp;#x2F;e10a89ac5988&amp;#x2F;tz4idnzryr-4388986?e=96507de8e5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mailchi.mp&amp;#x2F;e10a89ac5988&amp;#x2F;tz4idnzryr-4388986?e=96507de...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Some doctors moving away from ventilators for virus patients</title><url>https://apnews.com/8ccd325c2be9bf454c2128dcb7bd616d</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jds375</author><text>The press release states that doctors have seen that patients on ventilators have higher death rates. But wouldn’t we expect that? If the situation is dire enough to put someone on a ventilator then they’re probably less likely to live anyway?&lt;p&gt;Edit: They do mention that it’s higher than other diseases relatively speaking, but don’t we expect Covid-19 to be higher than say, the flu, given it seems to primarily target the upper respiratory area?</text></comment>