{"id":105316,"date":"2020-04-14T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/doctors-suspect-mystery-covid-19-lung-problems-plea-for-new-approach"},"modified":"2020-04-14T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T18:03:00","slug":"doctors-suspect-mystery-covid-19-lung-problems-plea-for-new-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/doctors-suspect-mystery-covid-19-lung-problems-plea-for-new-approach","title":{"rendered":"Doctors Suspect Mystery COVID-19 Lung Problems, Plea for New Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some doctors are questioning the way ventilators are being used for people with serious cases of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/wuhan_coronavirus_2019-ncov\/article.htm\" rel=\"dt\">COVID-19<\/a>. Why? More data shows a high death rate for patients treated under current ventilator practices.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, these doctors are saying their patients behave more like they have high altitude sickness than a viral infection. They talk about two different types of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/wuhan_coronavirus_outbreak_2019-ncov\/article.htm\" rel=\"slide\" class=\"\" title=\"Educational Slideshow\" target=\"_blank\">COVID-19<\/a> patients with differing severe lung problems.<\/p>\n<p>While some patients respond to treatment as expected, doctors also describe patients whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/image-collection\/lungs_picture\/picture.htm\" rel=\"img\" class=\"\" title=\"Medical Image\" target=\"_blank\">lungs<\/a> seem relatively fine, but who still can\u2019t get enough oxygen into their blood. These patients may make up the majority with severe infections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some doctors are questioning the way ventilators are being used for people with serious cases of COVID-19. Why? More data shows a high death rate for patients treated under current ventilator practices. At the same time, these doctors are saying their patients behave more like they have high altitude sickness than a viral infection. They [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105316","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=105316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}