Tens of thousands of Americans died after being placed on mechanical ventilators in spring 2020. It’s long past time we got real answers as to how many were killed this way.
We intubate you to protect us, and we get bonus reimbursement—a win-win!! Another sad mass fear-mongering fallout from the plandemic. Appreciate your work to expose the scam these past few years.
It seems like ventilation was basically drawn-out euthanasia. And we also need to remember that family and visitors were disallowed, so there was no one acting on behalf of the (isolated and terrified) patient and saying, "wait a minute... what evidence do you have that this will help? can't we try something else?"
If the people in gov’t both politicians and physicians don’t go to prison for mass murder, something is wrong with our judicial system. They should not be allowed to walk the streets, they are dangerous.
Euthanasia is painless by definition. Death by intubation and mechanical ventilation implies a lot of suffering. It was a drawn-out torture, not euthanasia.
I think the OP post is absolutely spectacular and I consider myself extremely skeptical of the state of iatrogenesis investigations - there is a sore lack of interest by all official parties that touch this nasty topic.
But based on my research and understanding, the cocktail of drugs required to intubate a patient are going to likely prevent most suffering, but not all. If a patient never wakes up from the induced coma, there should not be much suffering at all. On the other hand, upon waking up, it can get pretty nasty.
The drugs involved in intubating a patient are numerous. They include but are not limited to pharmaceutical agents which initiate or extend the following:
1) Pain killers
2) Sedatives / coma inducers
3) Anxiolytics (anti-anxiety)
4) Anti-psychotics / anti-agitation
5) Anti-hypertensives
6) Anti-coagulants (anti-clotting)
7) Neck, throat and lung relaxants
8) Generalized muscle relaxants
9) Cough suppressants
10) Anti-inflammatories
11) Antibiotics
12) Anti-"Virals"
The full list is longer, or rather, can be broken down further.
Some of these are necessarily related and a singular drug can achieve multiple of these effects.
1 through 4 will ameliorate most suffering by the poor individuals who succumbed to iatrogenetic phenomena.
I am compiling a large compendium of resources relating to the above, but here are a few good articles / papers.
So, the PTB were limiting the number of witnesses to only hospital staff who went along with it, many of them knowing how tortuous and lethal it was. A sign of the times that evil is taking over, for now.
The "witnesses", the Jewish or other prisoners who, as slave labor, were "manning" the gas chambers and crematoriums at Auschwitz-Birkenau (which was actually forty camps---see Wikipedia), etc., were themselves gassed and burned, or shot, so there would be no prisoner-witnesses left alive (though, evidently, some escaped death), no witnesses other than the Nazi staff members, a thousand or more of which were secretly given asylum and citizenship in the U.S.!
History is repeating again, but it's much worse today, God help us ALL!
I’m so thankful that when I was hospitalized and ventilated, friends had balloons and flowers sent to my room, and my husband visited daily (once I was out of isolation after 19 days) so that the hospital knew there would be people upset if I died...
Wow... I'm glad you pulled through, and also that the hospital knew people were watching. I'm sure the degree of isolation depended on the hospital and the state.
May 25, 2023·edited May 25, 2023Liked by Michael P Senger
This is truly a tragic and horrifying tale on so many levels. I fear that if people in healthcare can’t admit they acted out of panic/ignorance (or whatever benign motivations many may have had), and thus made huge mistakes, there will be MORE of the same at the next go round. And make no mistake, there will be a next go round, should the malign forces that profited so much off COVID and the ensuing manufactured hysteria not be stopped.
Curious to as why we followed the protocols of China in dealing with this at all. How did they suddenly become the gold standard of healthcare? These are the same people shown in the ridiculous videos of people dropping down dead in hazmat suits, who also welded people into their living spaces. These were the standard bearers? Makes no sense, unless at some upper level of those in authority, deliberate harm was intended. As well as forcing a paradigm shift in how governments act and the people respond.
This was absolutely not an operation run by Chinese authorities it was 100% run by Western Intelligence agencies and the operators that are intertwined within the networks of "public-private partnerships."
If you go back and read the recent history and business plans of outfits like CEPI, GAVI, JHU Center for Health Security, CSIS, Gates Foundation and all the rest you will see with clarity how this was planned out and executed.
Quite simply the "War on Pathogens" has replaced the "War on Terror" as the world's money spinner for the leading Western financial conglomerates.
Covid-19 was the first stage of this operation which opened up the avenues for various tactics that will be employed by the biosecurity apparatus in service to the billionaires who run the show.
Covid-19 had absolutely zero to do with any health emergency- it was a manufactured event invented for multiple purposes.
Why exactly did every nurse, doctor, physical therapist, pharmacist, ot, pt, keep quiet about the people being killed? I will NEVER understand how they could do this🥲🥲.
They didn't all keep quiet, like the one nurse from Florida who worked in NY and then blew the whistle early on. Anyone watching that video would have understood pretty well what was going on.
I am equally curious if there was an embedded protocol in the Electronic Health Record (EHR) REQUIRING a patient to be placed on a vent. This could override an individual physician’s opinion and steer toward the “acceptable “ treatment. There could be a paper trail of sorts as to when and who dictated this standard of care.
Very likely there was/is a bureaucratic paper trail to discover. Much like how there are now codes to put into all our medical charts signifying our covid vaccine status.
I’m fairly certain that at least with the death of so many elderly people who were intubated if they got admitted to hospital with covid, they were deliberately thinning the ranks of the “useless eaters”.
But nothing whatsoever excuses their going along with it, or not at least stopping it early on. Remember, "just following orders" is NOT a defense. All of them from bottom to top are complicit in mass-murder, and should be held completely, legally accountable without fail.
Another thought occurred to me after publishing my last comment: It is the responsibility of health care workers to consider needs of the individual. If vents were used to reduce the aerosolization of the disease (to protect workers), this policy put the collective ahead of the individual, essentially breaking the unwritten contract to put individuals’ needs first.
Thank you for sharing your story, I'm so sorry for your loss and what you had to go through. I'm glad you are getting involved in the fight. The PREP ACT needs to be repealed and government financial incentives for treatments should be banned.
Some doctors stayed calm and cool and were able to think clearly, but sadly they seem to have been in a minority. Paul Marik and Pierre Kory come to mind, both ICU doctors, along with GPs like DR. Fareed and Tyson in California and Chetty in South Africa. They actually had the brains to go back to first principles and work out effective treatment protocols. They are the real heroes of Covid, not the thousands of doctors who just blindly followed the 'narrative'. Interestingly, nurses seemed to be able to work out something was badly wrong in hospitals - but of course were not listened to.
"Secondary bacterial infection of the lung (pneumonia) was extremely common in patients with COVID-19, affecting almost half the patients who required support from mechanical ventilation. By applying machine learning to medical record data, scientists at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have found that secondary bacterial pneumonia that does not resolve was a key driver of death in patients with COVID-19, results published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
Bacterial infections may even exceed death rates from the viral infection itself, according to the findings. The scientists also found evidence that COVID-19 does not cause a “cytokine storm,” so often believed to cause death."
I am a RN in Minnesota and my dad was murdered by hospital protocols, he died 1-30-22, after being isolated for 24 days. We knew we did not want him to go into the hospital because of what they were doing but he threw blood clots in his lungs and I could not treat that with what I had available to me at the time at home. They did NOT have consent, they refused to listen to my requests as his daughter and POA. My dad was given enough sedatives to euthanize an elephant, the vent just topped it all off so they could get their bonus $. It was the combination of all of the sedatives, narcotics, opioids, isolation, withholding treatments, etc. etc. etc. My dad had just turned 69 years old. He did not deserve this.
I will be forever broken and traumatized as i fought for his life 24/7 for over a month, i have severe PTSD. I can not believe what I witnessed, every single one of my dad's human rights were violated. My family will be forever broken. 💔
In Spring 2020 Italian health officials introduced unprecedented health protocols specifically for Covid.
These new protocols, including early intubation and accompanying sedation, were deemed necessary to protect doctors and nurses at a time when the viral load of the alleged "lethal pathogen" was purportedly lower.
Mechanical ventilators, that push oxygen into patients whose lungs are failing, quickly became the accepted go-to practice throughout the Italian hospital system. Doctors made extravagant claims that ventilators had “become like gold.”
Employing ventilators involves sedating the patient and placing a tube into the throat. Drugs such as midazolam, morphine sulfate and propofol are used in accompaniment with this procedure; drugs that come with contra-indications and warnings of side effects including respiratory depression and respiratory arrest. Midazolam and propofol are two drugs that are regularly used for assisted suicide and to put down death row inmates.
During the initial wave of hysteria in March 2020 the Italian government requested and received an emergency procurement of midazolam from Germany as their hospitals “suddenly needed 3-4 times the normal amount of this drug.”
The Italian Civil Protection undertook a fast-track public procurement to secure 3800 additional respiratory ventilators.
As early as April 2020 the reliance on mechanical ventilation came under fire from Italian experts. Luciano Gattinoni, a world-renowned Italian intensive care specialist suggested that “mechanical ventilation was being misused and overused.”
Marco Garrone, an emergency doctor at the Mauriziano Hospital in Turin, Italy remarked, “We started with a one-size-fits-all attitude, which didn’t pay off,” Garrone said of the practice of putting patients on ventilators right away, only to see their conditions deteriorate. “Now we try to delay intubation as much as possible.”
Even as some health officials pushed to get more ventilators to treat coronavirus patients, some doctors were moving away from using them.
Questions surrounding actual causes of “Covid deaths” of the frail and elderly placed on ventilators began to surface for the simple reason that doctors were noticing unusually high death rates for coronavirus patients on ventilators.
It was public health despotism and not a "novel pathogen" that was igniting this tinderbox in the Italian hospitals and creating a feedback loop of public panic.
What spread through the Italian hospitals in Spring 2020 was an epidemic of iatrogenesis?
The Spring 2020 mortality event in Northern Italy was not an epidemiological or biological aberration but was the result of an unprecedented set of administrative mandates by the Italian government and public health officials.
The question now is not whether there was malicious collusion, but how much malicious collusion exists - and who is implicated. It seems the globalists are marching in lockstep with the CCP ...
By the grace of God, at the age of 49, I survived 5 weeks on a ventilator for covid. I now have permanent lung damage and still require supplemental oxygen with exertion over a year later. But praise God, I’m still here with my husband and kids.
Ventilator-induced barotrauma (VIB) occurs when the pressure of the air delivered by a mechanical ventilator exceeds the ability of the lungs to handle it. This can cause damage to the lung tissue, leading to a variety of complications.
During mechanical ventilation, air is delivered into the lungs through a tube that is inserted into the patient's airway.
The pressure of the air delivered by the ventilator can be adjusted to help the lungs expand and contract properly. However, if the pressure is set too high, it can cause damage to the delicate tissues of the lungs.
The lungs are made up of tiny air sacs- -the alveoli, which are surrounded by blood vessels. When the pressure of the ventilator air delivered to the lungs is too high, it can cause the alveoli to overinflate and eventually rupture.
This can lead to the air leaking out of the lungs and into surrounding tissues, such as the chest cavity or the tissues under the skin.
In addition to damaging the lungs, VIB can also cause other complications, such as pneumothorax (air in the chest cavity), subcutaneous emphysema (air in the tissues under the skin), and respiratory distress.
Several factors can increase the risk of VIB, including pre-existing lung disease, high levels of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP), and prolonged mechanical ventilation.
To prevent VIB, careful monitoring of the patient's lung function and adjustment of ventilator settings is necessary. ( which was obviously not the case in hospitals).
If VIB has already occurred, treatment may involve the insertion of a chest tube to drain air from the chest cavity or surgery to repair any lung damage.
It’s saddening that we’ve lost scores of patients/ our loved ones to VIB...
An excellent article! I appreciate you keeping up on this issue because it's clear they hope we "forget" all about the ventilator hysteria that happened in March 2020.
Ventilators were all over the news for about a three week period in March 2020 and then never mentioned again. That signaled to me that something was amiss.
Your deep dives are exactly what is missing in mainstream media today. Thank you.
Being Canadian, I do wonder whether hospitals in Canada adopted the same iatrogenetic practices seeing as with Health Canada, it is often “monkey-see-monkey-do” with regards to the States. Were there, as well, the same monetary incentives to use ventilators?
We intubate you to protect us, and we get bonus reimbursement—a win-win!! Another sad mass fear-mongering fallout from the plandemic. Appreciate your work to expose the scam these past few years.
It seems like ventilation was basically drawn-out euthanasia. And we also need to remember that family and visitors were disallowed, so there was no one acting on behalf of the (isolated and terrified) patient and saying, "wait a minute... what evidence do you have that this will help? can't we try something else?"
If the people in gov’t both politicians and physicians don’t go to prison for mass murder, something is wrong with our judicial system. They should not be allowed to walk the streets, they are dangerous.
"Our judicial system" that is a hand basket full right there.
Who would actually let our judicial system do what they are supposed to do?
All of our "elected" pols would go to jail
Euthanasia is painless by definition. Death by intubation and mechanical ventilation implies a lot of suffering. It was a drawn-out torture, not euthanasia.
I grieve for the families that had to endure this trauma and loss.
I think the OP post is absolutely spectacular and I consider myself extremely skeptical of the state of iatrogenesis investigations - there is a sore lack of interest by all official parties that touch this nasty topic.
But based on my research and understanding, the cocktail of drugs required to intubate a patient are going to likely prevent most suffering, but not all. If a patient never wakes up from the induced coma, there should not be much suffering at all. On the other hand, upon waking up, it can get pretty nasty.
The drugs involved in intubating a patient are numerous. They include but are not limited to pharmaceutical agents which initiate or extend the following:
1) Pain killers
2) Sedatives / coma inducers
3) Anxiolytics (anti-anxiety)
4) Anti-psychotics / anti-agitation
5) Anti-hypertensives
6) Anti-coagulants (anti-clotting)
7) Neck, throat and lung relaxants
8) Generalized muscle relaxants
9) Cough suppressants
10) Anti-inflammatories
11) Antibiotics
12) Anti-"Virals"
The full list is longer, or rather, can be broken down further.
Some of these are necessarily related and a singular drug can achieve multiple of these effects.
1 through 4 will ameliorate most suffering by the poor individuals who succumbed to iatrogenetic phenomena.
I am compiling a large compendium of resources relating to the above, but here are a few good articles / papers.
(2023/6 Last Updated) COVID Treatment Guidelines
https://files.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/guidelines/covid19treatmentguidelines.pdf
(2021/9) How COVID-19 Made It Even Tougher to Know ICU Patients as Individuals
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2784419
The above is an excellent and informative read.
(2021/6) COVID-19 and Drugs
https://www.unodc.org/res/wdr2021/field/WDR21_Booklet_5.pdf
(2020/12) Multimorbidity, Polyiatrogenesis, and COVID‐19
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC7753613/
So, the PTB were limiting the number of witnesses to only hospital staff who went along with it, many of them knowing how tortuous and lethal it was. A sign of the times that evil is taking over, for now.
The "witnesses", the Jewish or other prisoners who, as slave labor, were "manning" the gas chambers and crematoriums at Auschwitz-Birkenau (which was actually forty camps---see Wikipedia), etc., were themselves gassed and burned, or shot, so there would be no prisoner-witnesses left alive (though, evidently, some escaped death), no witnesses other than the Nazi staff members, a thousand or more of which were secretly given asylum and citizenship in the U.S.!
History is repeating again, but it's much worse today, God help us ALL!
No third party witnesses allowed- this was intentional.
Sure seems like it, doesn't it?
I’m so thankful that when I was hospitalized and ventilated, friends had balloons and flowers sent to my room, and my husband visited daily (once I was out of isolation after 19 days) so that the hospital knew there would be people upset if I died...
Wow... I'm glad you pulled through, and also that the hospital knew people were watching. I'm sure the degree of isolation depended on the hospital and the state.
sad and very very true. Tragic
IMO, the ventilators were a cover for the drugs.
This is truly a tragic and horrifying tale on so many levels. I fear that if people in healthcare can’t admit they acted out of panic/ignorance (or whatever benign motivations many may have had), and thus made huge mistakes, there will be MORE of the same at the next go round. And make no mistake, there will be a next go round, should the malign forces that profited so much off COVID and the ensuing manufactured hysteria not be stopped.
Curious to as why we followed the protocols of China in dealing with this at all. How did they suddenly become the gold standard of healthcare? These are the same people shown in the ridiculous videos of people dropping down dead in hazmat suits, who also welded people into their living spaces. These were the standard bearers? Makes no sense, unless at some upper level of those in authority, deliberate harm was intended. As well as forcing a paradigm shift in how governments act and the people respond.
Indeed Nana, that to me is the most important overarching question of the COVID saga.
This was absolutely not an operation run by Chinese authorities it was 100% run by Western Intelligence agencies and the operators that are intertwined within the networks of "public-private partnerships."
If you go back and read the recent history and business plans of outfits like CEPI, GAVI, JHU Center for Health Security, CSIS, Gates Foundation and all the rest you will see with clarity how this was planned out and executed.
Quite simply the "War on Pathogens" has replaced the "War on Terror" as the world's money spinner for the leading Western financial conglomerates.
Covid-19 was the first stage of this operation which opened up the avenues for various tactics that will be employed by the biosecurity apparatus in service to the billionaires who run the show.
Covid-19 had absolutely zero to do with any health emergency- it was a manufactured event invented for multiple purposes.
Why exactly did every nurse, doctor, physical therapist, pharmacist, ot, pt, keep quiet about the people being killed? I will NEVER understand how they could do this🥲🥲.
do a little bit of reading on 1930's Europe. My parents were kids.
They were taught from the beginning that jews were greedy and evil.
Ideas like this, are exactly what we are experiencing today. "keep your mouth shut and do not make eye contact"
They didn't all keep quiet, like the one nurse from Florida who worked in NY and then blew the whistle early on. Anyone watching that video would have understood pretty well what was going on.
I am equally curious if there was an embedded protocol in the Electronic Health Record (EHR) REQUIRING a patient to be placed on a vent. This could override an individual physician’s opinion and steer toward the “acceptable “ treatment. There could be a paper trail of sorts as to when and who dictated this standard of care.
Very likely there was/is a bureaucratic paper trail to discover. Much like how there are now codes to put into all our medical charts signifying our covid vaccine status.
I’m fairly certain that at least with the death of so many elderly people who were intubated if they got admitted to hospital with covid, they were deliberately thinning the ranks of the “useless eaters”.
Great points! I’m also curious if the ventilation protocol was gamed in the Event 201 planning scenario.
But nothing whatsoever excuses their going along with it, or not at least stopping it early on. Remember, "just following orders" is NOT a defense. All of them from bottom to top are complicit in mass-murder, and should be held completely, legally accountable without fail.
Another thought occurred to me after publishing my last comment: It is the responsibility of health care workers to consider needs of the individual. If vents were used to reduce the aerosolization of the disease (to protect workers), this policy put the collective ahead of the individual, essentially breaking the unwritten contract to put individuals’ needs first.
Exactly. This practice was an explicit violation of the Hippocratic Oath.
This happened to my family! My sweet Dad was isolated, given Remdesivir, ventilation and left to die alone.
Now we have a group of families fighting in MN! 💪🏻
Please read my story here:
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/ralph-marxen-jr-covid-hospital-death/?mibextid=Zxz2cZ
Thank you for sharing your story, I'm so sorry for your loss and what you had to go through. I'm glad you are getting involved in the fight. The PREP ACT needs to be repealed and government financial incentives for treatments should be banned.
Some doctors stayed calm and cool and were able to think clearly, but sadly they seem to have been in a minority. Paul Marik and Pierre Kory come to mind, both ICU doctors, along with GPs like DR. Fareed and Tyson in California and Chetty in South Africa. They actually had the brains to go back to first principles and work out effective treatment protocols. They are the real heroes of Covid, not the thousands of doctors who just blindly followed the 'narrative'. Interestingly, nurses seemed to be able to work out something was badly wrong in hospitals - but of course were not listened to.
Never forget Dr. Zev Zelenko, RIP. He tx’d his pts with hcq, early treatment with success.💕💕
"Secondary bacterial infection of the lung (pneumonia) was extremely common in patients with COVID-19, affecting almost half the patients who required support from mechanical ventilation. By applying machine learning to medical record data, scientists at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have found that secondary bacterial pneumonia that does not resolve was a key driver of death in patients with COVID-19, results published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
Bacterial infections may even exceed death rates from the viral infection itself, according to the findings. The scientists also found evidence that COVID-19 does not cause a “cytokine storm,” so often believed to cause death."
https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2023/05/05/secondary-bacterial-pneumonia-drove-many-covid-19-deaths/
Related published study in the Journal of Clinical Investigation: https://www.jci.org/articles/view/170682
Even a med student knows secondary bacterial infection should be treated in the vulnerable and elderly.
I am a RN in Minnesota and my dad was murdered by hospital protocols, he died 1-30-22, after being isolated for 24 days. We knew we did not want him to go into the hospital because of what they were doing but he threw blood clots in his lungs and I could not treat that with what I had available to me at the time at home. They did NOT have consent, they refused to listen to my requests as his daughter and POA. My dad was given enough sedatives to euthanize an elephant, the vent just topped it all off so they could get their bonus $. It was the combination of all of the sedatives, narcotics, opioids, isolation, withholding treatments, etc. etc. etc. My dad had just turned 69 years old. He did not deserve this.
I will be forever broken and traumatized as i fought for his life 24/7 for over a month, i have severe PTSD. I can not believe what I witnessed, every single one of my dad's human rights were violated. My family will be forever broken. 💔
Horrific—I’m so sorry Jenna!
Outrageous.
Love you, friend ♥️🫶🏻💪🏻🙏🏻😘
In Spring 2020 Italian health officials introduced unprecedented health protocols specifically for Covid.
These new protocols, including early intubation and accompanying sedation, were deemed necessary to protect doctors and nurses at a time when the viral load of the alleged "lethal pathogen" was purportedly lower.
Mechanical ventilators, that push oxygen into patients whose lungs are failing, quickly became the accepted go-to practice throughout the Italian hospital system. Doctors made extravagant claims that ventilators had “become like gold.”
Employing ventilators involves sedating the patient and placing a tube into the throat. Drugs such as midazolam, morphine sulfate and propofol are used in accompaniment with this procedure; drugs that come with contra-indications and warnings of side effects including respiratory depression and respiratory arrest. Midazolam and propofol are two drugs that are regularly used for assisted suicide and to put down death row inmates.
During the initial wave of hysteria in March 2020 the Italian government requested and received an emergency procurement of midazolam from Germany as their hospitals “suddenly needed 3-4 times the normal amount of this drug.”
The Italian Civil Protection undertook a fast-track public procurement to secure 3800 additional respiratory ventilators.
As early as April 2020 the reliance on mechanical ventilation came under fire from Italian experts. Luciano Gattinoni, a world-renowned Italian intensive care specialist suggested that “mechanical ventilation was being misused and overused.”
Marco Garrone, an emergency doctor at the Mauriziano Hospital in Turin, Italy remarked, “We started with a one-size-fits-all attitude, which didn’t pay off,” Garrone said of the practice of putting patients on ventilators right away, only to see their conditions deteriorate. “Now we try to delay intubation as much as possible.”
Even as some health officials pushed to get more ventilators to treat coronavirus patients, some doctors were moving away from using them.
Questions surrounding actual causes of “Covid deaths” of the frail and elderly placed on ventilators began to surface for the simple reason that doctors were noticing unusually high death rates for coronavirus patients on ventilators.
It was public health despotism and not a "novel pathogen" that was igniting this tinderbox in the Italian hospitals and creating a feedback loop of public panic.
What spread through the Italian hospitals in Spring 2020 was an epidemic of iatrogenesis?
The Spring 2020 mortality event in Northern Italy was not an epidemiological or biological aberration but was the result of an unprecedented set of administrative mandates by the Italian government and public health officials.
NYC followed suit.
The question now is not whether there was malicious collusion, but how much malicious collusion exists - and who is implicated. It seems the globalists are marching in lockstep with the CCP ...
Reverse that last part, and you've got it.
By the grace of God, at the age of 49, I survived 5 weeks on a ventilator for covid. I now have permanent lung damage and still require supplemental oxygen with exertion over a year later. But praise God, I’m still here with my husband and kids.
Horrifying—but so glad to hear it Michelle!
Ventilator-induced barotrauma (VIB) occurs when the pressure of the air delivered by a mechanical ventilator exceeds the ability of the lungs to handle it. This can cause damage to the lung tissue, leading to a variety of complications.
During mechanical ventilation, air is delivered into the lungs through a tube that is inserted into the patient's airway.
The pressure of the air delivered by the ventilator can be adjusted to help the lungs expand and contract properly. However, if the pressure is set too high, it can cause damage to the delicate tissues of the lungs.
The lungs are made up of tiny air sacs- -the alveoli, which are surrounded by blood vessels. When the pressure of the ventilator air delivered to the lungs is too high, it can cause the alveoli to overinflate and eventually rupture.
This can lead to the air leaking out of the lungs and into surrounding tissues, such as the chest cavity or the tissues under the skin.
In addition to damaging the lungs, VIB can also cause other complications, such as pneumothorax (air in the chest cavity), subcutaneous emphysema (air in the tissues under the skin), and respiratory distress.
Several factors can increase the risk of VIB, including pre-existing lung disease, high levels of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP), and prolonged mechanical ventilation.
To prevent VIB, careful monitoring of the patient's lung function and adjustment of ventilator settings is necessary. ( which was obviously not the case in hospitals).
If VIB has already occurred, treatment may involve the insertion of a chest tube to drain air from the chest cavity or surgery to repair any lung damage.
It’s saddening that we’ve lost scores of patients/ our loved ones to VIB...
Great article! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you John!
I spoke with junior Dr in Borneo who described intubating a mid 30 y/o asymptomatic for training purposes. He died, they said of covid.
Wow wtf? That’s horrifying…
An excellent article! I appreciate you keeping up on this issue because it's clear they hope we "forget" all about the ventilator hysteria that happened in March 2020.
Ventilators were all over the news for about a three week period in March 2020 and then never mentioned again. That signaled to me that something was amiss.
So true. Thank you YM!
Your deep dives are exactly what is missing in mainstream media today. Thank you.
Being Canadian, I do wonder whether hospitals in Canada adopted the same iatrogenetic practices seeing as with Health Canada, it is often “monkey-see-monkey-do” with regards to the States. Were there, as well, the same monetary incentives to use ventilators?
So many questions...
Thank you RC!