Experts suggested that doctors too early transfer patients with coronavirus to mechanical ventilation. Because of this, every second patient on mechanical ventilation dies..

Lack of mechanical ventilation devices in many countries of the world is called as one of the reasons for the high mortality from the coronavirus pandemic. But now doctors are warned that introducing patients in a state of artificial respiration using a specialized apparatus ahead of time does more harm than good. For example, in the UK, two-thirds of patients with COVID-19 who were connected to mechanical ventilation subsequently died. Similar data comes from China, Italy and the United States, and experts are trying to figure out why mortality is so high..

It has been suggested that switching to artificial ventilation too early does more harm than good to patients.. The ventilator pushes oxygen into the lungs of patients. But it cannot be excluded that in some patients, the transition to mechanical ventilation enhances the harmful immune response of the body. These devices are harmful because they drive oxygen into the tiny lung alveoli at high pressure..

Technically, this may be the result of a general deterioration in human health, but the devices can enhance inflammatory processes in the lungs.. That is why patients need to be connected to mechanical ventilation only at the stage at which there is an immediate threat to life due to acute respiratory distress syndrome. Unfortunately, many patients are connected by default after, for example, a CT scan shows impairment in lung function, but the patient continues to breathe independently. Injection of oxygen under pressure into the lungs causes serious irritation to organs and causes harm to them.. This is a closed cycle for patients with coronavirus, experts say. The intubation of such patients should be put off until the very last moment, writes The Daily Mail.

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