Covid patients who are seriously ill die unnecessarily because they refuse to go on ventilators due to unfounded fears that the devices increase the risk of death, senior doctors have warned bring.
The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine Science (FICM), the organization representing the 3,500 doctors working in intensive care across the NHS, has seen an increase in patients mistakenly believing that tools them.
The misunderstanding seems to stem from the fact that the death rate in ICUs has fallen at the same time as doctors have reduced the use of coolers, which can slow down the body’s breathing process. over when disease caused failure of the lungs.
The devices were routinely used during spring peaks when ICUs had high mortality rates. According to the National Intensive Care Research & Research Center, 75.9% of Covid patients were admitted within a day of reaching ICU before the highest rate of first-wave hospital admissions reached 1 April last year.
This figure fell to 44.1% after the peak, at the same time as improved survival rates for Covid patients as the mortality chances in ICU fell from 43% to 34% around the same time.
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Dr. Alison Pittard, dean of the FICM, has said that recent studies showed that the two movements were not related, confirming that patients were and are dying from Covid-19 itself rather than from the her tools.
Pittard, a senior ICU consultant in Leeds, said the main reason for the decline in shower use was because doctors realized that coronavirus patients were largely reacting to what would previously be seen as dangerous levels. low of oxygen.
She has emphasized the dissemination of accurate information about ingestion to the general public, because for critically ill patients it can provide the same chance of survival.
Pittard told the Guardian: “They think if they don’t get on an aircraft, they have a better chance of survival, because once they go on an aircraft they die no matter what. dè.
“And of course that’s not right because if you are facing a patient who has to go on an aircraft … if they don’t go on an aircraft there is a chance that they will die. So that almost says there is a 100% chance that you will die. However, if they fly an aircraft they have a 40% chance of dying.
“As clinicians treat patients on the shop floor, we are aware of more patients refusing to go on an aircraft but I can only speculate about the true rationale behind that. I’m sure it’s about that more information is available but it’s not complete or misinterpreted. ”
Pittard went on to introduce a study that included more than 1,000 Covid patients across five U.S. hospitals. Of those on ventilators, 42% died, although they tended to be older and with more dangerous disease symptoms.
On Friday afternoon, 3,918 Covid patients on ventilators across the UK out of a total of 35,375 were hospitalized.