Originally Posted by Doc Fiberglass
rum Rum RUM ... what kinda Doc am I ?

Kinda SELF EXPLANATORY! You best stop hittin that flask of 151 ... R U M !

But seriously... how this damn V kills people is from the lungs being BLOCKED .. then these poor folks suffocate to death frown

Hence the need for the ventilators


No sweetheart, the lungs don't get "blocked" and people are not suffocating. Clearly your mind was elsewhere during pulmonology class in med school.

In any event, what happens to the lungs during a respiratory illness like this is their function becomes reduced or non-existent, caused by whatever complications result from being infected with a virus that has no cure. If the lungs are sick, so is the person who owns them. This is why you hear so much about people being at more at risk with those nasty pre-existing conditions like emphysema, etc. Capiche?

Also, a ventilator essentially DOES THE BREATHING FOR YOU. I know this because my kid's been on one a bunch of times. "Coming off the vent" is a big deal in the recovery process becuase that means the patient is breathing on their own without help.


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