Recently our COVID-Diaries blogger talked about trying to ventilate lungs of “concrete” (see her blog here: https://carolinefife.wpengine.com/2020/05/13/covid-19-diaries-battle-fatigue/). Here’s the visual for the Concrete Lung of COVID-19. It’s no wonder that these patients are re-defining our understanding of oxygen saturation and hypoxemia.
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What now docs? Should ww be reconsidering the need perhaps to screen COVID-19 positive cases for oxygen saturation and perhaps get those that are not yet symptomatic with the hypoxemia onto Hyperbaric oxygen therapy?
Read the Winthrop hospital clinical trial report. Seems in our race to get vaccines out we left out the best welfare of the patient.
I used to be a ranger and a very active mountaineer and expedition guide. We studied the HAPE and treatment such as the Gamow bag and oxygen. A HAPE patient as I recall also has lungs that look like concrete. So, why are we not progressing more rapidly with trials and multiplace chamber manufacturing and commissioning and clinical technician training? I am also interested that chambers can be disinfected with flooded UV-C. How long does it take?
Also in New Mexico a firm has developed a full head cover mask with viral breathout capture device. Could this be used in conjunction with multiplace chamber use to drop the issue of exposure and then again recycled with UVC cleaning?
What about the identified fibrosis from mask particles?