Advances In ICU Care Are Saving More Patients Who Have COVID-19

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As health care workers continue to take care of COVID-19 patients, doctors have made big strides in figuring out how to keep people alive in the intensive care unit.

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"Somehow I got out of the straps," he says in an interview from his hospital bed."I completely unhooked myself ... and pulled the breathing tube out. And here's the really funny thing. I'm obviously pretty doped up. They had me on all kinds of stuff and how I was even conscious, they aren't even sure of that.

"We have very much replicated what's been seen worldwide, which is over time the mortality in ICUs have decreased," says, director of the Emory Critical Care Center. He oversees ICUs at five hospitals in the Emory system, including Johns Creek. A big one is that, when the first wave of Covid-19 hit Atlanta's hospitals in April, doctors had no experience with the disease. Medical management of these patients is now, by comparison, routine.

Doctors can better handle common and serious complications like blood clots. They realized that patients do better if they aren't lying on their backs all the time. Patients in Emory hospitals are encouraged to spend some time lying on their stomachs. That simple effort sometimes is enough to keep them out of the intensive-care unit.

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We are also seeing less people hospitalized and less people needing the ICU as the virus spreads more in younger, healthier people.

Quick lock us down!

Maybe it isn’t as deadly as the media and 4chan lead us to believe.

Biden would appoint a black woman to Supreme Court. 🧐 huh..interesting.....

Hydroxychloriquine much?

Great way to convince the Magats even more to walk around maskless like a bunch of spoiled kids🤦🏼‍♂️ Wave 2 wont be pretty 'Between September and November, a second wave of flu peaks in the United States. This second wave is highly fatal, and responsible for most of the deaths'

They need the beds for the elective surgeries 💰

Thank you healers!!!

Related in a pre-hospital capacity

cotey_mary Saved more but how many will have life long damage to live with?

Good to know.

Laurie_Garrett Awesome informative article as well as great outcome for him.

Laurie_Garrett

NightShiftMD But we seem to be learning more and more about recovery from Covid-19 is not always 'complete.'

No Covid patients here in Cleveland Clinic either

We haven’t had more than one covid patient in my ICU for a couple months.

I love how the media likes to release these stories first thing in the morning or over night when they don’t get as much activity so the story becomes buried.This seems like this is a story you would want front and center. So why release it at the crack of dawn? To bury it.

It’s almost as though fact-based observation, analysis, and collaboration works!

It's no secret- hydroxychloroquine.

Probably chicken soup like the rest of us

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