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Diana Kavanagh
diana_crossley
Lessons from the past week on cpap ward: 1. It’s lonely as a respiratory consultant manning the cpap ward alone and making some extremely tough choices. Talk to itu. They
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Lane the Seasoned Isolationist.
LaneThomaHewitt
@majorityfm @SamSeder @_michaelbrooks @NomikiKonst I have sleep Aponea, I use #BiPap instead of the more common #CPAP treatment. It works by assisting the lungs enough to open the airways and
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SupernovaStyle Science News
Supernova_Style
Oh this is going to make a lot mad. They are now saying don't use invasive ventilators, but to use oxygen first, but if that doesn't work to use CPAP
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Chris Meadows
mrbrownsauce
To explain our rationale...COVID-19 seems to present as 2 phenotypes: initially high compliance with poor V/Q match and low recruitability, ‘dry’ lungs; versus subsequent low compliance, ‘wet’ lungs, potentially recruitable.
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Bea is Chronically Persisting
Be_Kinderr
Interesting article on the ways lack of oxygen to the brain (here caused by sleep apnea) damages the brain. #pplwME #MECFS shown to hypoxia via poor brain blood flow. I
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Nikki
nikki_isabel
Dad was diagnosed with extremely severe sleep apnoea last week. He’s always had awful broken sleep, constant tossing and turning, horrific snoring etc.He used a CPAP machine for the first
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Make Your Own Cranberry Sauce
greyplanet
Buckle up babies, because I’m gonna tell you about my experience with sleep apnea. I was diagnosed 5 years ago. To get diagnosed, your primary doctor has to write you
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Manini af
ManiniAlex
COVID management pearls thread...Some collective wisdom from our EM attending group @SinaiEM - the epicenter of the epicenter #COVID19 This is anecdotal experience based on what is working for us
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Dan Rosenblum
sharkbiotech
if the stat that 80%+ of those on ventilators die is true then maybe this is not a lung issue rather a red blood cell issue Rabbi of my synagogue
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
#RightToRepair has never been more urgent. There's a reason farmers have been on the front lines of R2R: they have pressing deadlines ("make hay while the sun shines") and are
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Dr Philip Lee
drphiliplee1
Thoughts and tips from a weekend on-call looking after COVID-19 patients:1. PPE is hot (not like that perverts). Make sure you stay well hydrated in between on breaks, also empty
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Rebecca Livingston
RebeccaMLiv
This weeks COVID learning: I remain sceptical about proning patients on CPAP...Proning improves SpO2 but patients feel breathless and can’t tolerate it for long. We’ve been able to wean FiO2
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lauren
LLW902
so is it fair to say that after 15 years as the intellectual darlings of capital, the only thing big tech could do during this crisis was rebrand cpap machines,
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David K Smith
professor_dave
As UK deaths continue to increase, I wanted to write about dying of respiratory failure. It won't be easy - either to write or read - but I think it
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Jonathan Britton
JonTheMedic
Based on this @emcrit post and the excellent material on the EMCrit webpage we decided to try this set up using our equipment. Thanks for the great information Scott! Once
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Dave Jones 🏴🏳️🌈
WelshGasDoc
Agreed. Although being “rational” is not the same as “rationing”. To be honest, if I get so ill with COVID that I need ITU, I honestly don’t think I want
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