{"id":105238,"date":"2020-04-12T21:22:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T04:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/why-some-doctors-are-now-moving-away-from-ventilator-treatments-for-coronavirus-patients"},"modified":"2020-04-12T21:22:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T04:22:17","slug":"why-some-doctors-are-now-moving-away-from-ventilator-treatments-for-coronavirus-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/why-some-doctors-are-now-moving-away-from-ventilator-treatments-for-coronavirus-patients","title":{"rendered":"Why Some Doctors Are Now Moving Away From Ventilator Treatments for Coronavirus Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-some-doctors-are-now-moving-away-from-ventilator-treatments-for-coronavirus-patients2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>#Repost \u201cSome doctors are experimenting with adding nitric oxide to the mix, to help improve blood flow and oxygen to the least damaged parts of the lungs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ironically enough nitric oxide improves blood oxygen flow, and also clears blood clots. Some patients who survive COVID19 have clots in the blood vessels in their lungs. We just have to wait and see.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>(NEW YORK) \u2014 As health officials around the world push to get more <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5815499\/ventilator-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ventilators<\/a> to treat coronavirus patients, some doctors are moving away from using the breathing machines when they can. The reason: Some hospitals have reported unusually high death rates for coronavirus patients on ventilators, and some doctors worry that the machines could be harming certain patients.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/collection\/coronavirus-heroes\/5816805\/coronavirus-front-line-workers-issue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Front Line Workers Tell Their Own Stories in the New Issue of TIME<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The evolving treatments highlight the fact that doctors are still learning the best way to manage a virus that emerged only months ago. They are relying on anecdotal, real-time data amid a crush of patients and shortages of basic supplies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#Repost \u201cSome doctors are experimenting with adding nitric oxide to the mix, to help improve blood flow and oxygen to the least damaged parts of the lungs.\u201d Ironically enough nitric oxide improves blood oxygen flow, and also clears blood clots. Some patients who survive COVID19 have clots in the blood vessels in their lungs. We [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}