US doctors avoid ventilators for coronavirus patients

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Doctors are moving away from using ventilators unless absolutely necessary as the lifesaving breathing machines go into short supply. 9News

Similar reports have emerged from China and the United Kingdom. One UK report put the figure at 66 percent. A very small study in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the disease first emerged, said 86 percent died.

"We know that mechanical ventilation is not benign," Dr Eddy Fan, an expert on respiratory treatment at Toronto General Hospital, said. Only a few weeks ago in New York City, coronavirus patients who came in quite sick were routinely placed on ventilators to keep them breathing, said Dr Joseph Habboushe, an emergency medicine doctor who works in Manhattan hospitals.

He said those decisions are separate from worries that there are not enough ventilators available. But that is a concern as well, Dr Habboushe added.

 

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