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![[Return] [Catalog] [Bottom] [Update] [O Auto] 89 / 32 / 64 / 2 File: 1584314594806.jpg (352 KB, 1079x1057) O Respiratory Therapist here: you're all f----- Anonymous (ID: h5Qblxz8 ) E 03/22/20(Sun)00:57:57 No.249385407 >>249385902 >>249386049 >>249386056 >>249386118 >>249386668 >>249386748 >>249387356 >>249387591 >>249387877 >>249387996 >>249388228 >>249390330 >>249390847 >>249390923 >>249393608 >>249394405 >>249395319 >>249396956 >>249397308 > Reading about it in the news, I knew it was going to be bad, but we deal with the flu every year so I was thinking: Well, it's probably not that much worse than the flu. But seeing patients with COVID-19 completely changed my perspective, and it's a lot more frightening. This is knocking out what should be perfectly fit, healthy people. > I'm seeing people who look relatively healthy with a minimal health history, and they are completely wiped out, like they've been hit by a truck. This is knocking out what should be perfectly fit, healthy people. Patients will be on minimal support, on a little bit of oxygen, and then all of a sudden, they go into complete respiratory arrest, shut down and can't breathe at all. They suddenly become unresponsive or go into respiratory failure. > O Anonymous (ID: h5Qblxz8 ) E 03/22/20(Sun)00:58:53 No.249385538 >249385902 >>249386049 >>249386118 >>249386668 >>249386748 >>249387134 >>249387854 >>249388863 >>249394192 >>249395743 >>249396956 File: 1584315196032.jpg (56 KB, 576x1024) > We have an observation unit in the hospital, and we have been admitting patients that had tested positive or are presumptive positive – these are patients that had been in contact with people who were positive. We go and check vitals on patients every four hours, and some are on a continuous cardiac monitor, so we see that their heart rate has a sudden increase or decrease, or someone goes in and sees that the patient is struggling to breathe or is unresponsive. That seems The lung is filled with so much fluid, displacing where the air would normally be. > It's called acute respiratory distress syndrome, ARDS. That means the lungs are filled with fluid. And it's notable for the way the X-ray looks: The entire lung is basically whited out from fluid. Patients with ARDS are extremely difficult to oxygenate. It has a really high mortality rate, about 40%. The way to manage it is to put a patient on a ventilator. The additional pressure helps the oxygen go into the bloodstream. > Normally, ARDS is something that happens over time as the lungs get more and more inflamed. But with this virus, it seems like it happens overnight. When you're healthy, your lung is made up of little balloons. Like a tree is made out of a bunch of little leaves, the lung is made of little air sacs that are called the alveoli. When you breathe in, all of those little air sacs inflate, and they have capillaries in the walls, little blood vessels. The oxygen gets from the air in the lung into the blood so it can be carried around the body. O Anonymous (ID: h5Qblxz8 ) E 03/22/20(Sun)00:59:21 No.249385608 ► »249385902 >>249386049 >>249386118 >>249386748 >>249396956 File: 1584313756903.jpg (237 KB, 1152x2048) > Typically with ARDS, the lungs become inflamed. It's like inflammation anywhere: If you have a burn on your arm, the skin around it turns red from additional blood flow. The body is sending it additional nutrients to heal. The problem is, when that happens in your lungs, fluid and extra blood starts going to the lungs. Viruses can injure cells in the walls of the alveoli, so the fluid leaks into the alveoli. A telltale sign of ARDS in an X-ray is what's called 'ground glass opacity,' like an old-fashioned ground glass privacy window in a shower. And lungs look that way because fluid is white on an X-ray, so the lung looks like white ground glass, or sometimes pure white, because the lung is filled with so much fluid, displacing where the air would normally be.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/795/734/bc2.png "Respiratory Therapist's take on the Kung Flu. | /r/4chan")
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