I am an American living in Japan. Docs here have GREAT SUCCESS treating covd19 criticals with ECMO! Jap Docs have been screaming to the world about ECMO, VENTS. DON'T WORK FOR 80% OF CRITICALS, EMCO gives the body enough Oxygen outs Co2 then the body's immune system levels out...

and fights the virus! MAIN point is that US/EU Docs are not using ECMO fast enough. COVID19 is not regular bacteria pneumonia, once its starts it multiplies 8,000x faster, attaches to and smothers lung sacks, No Oxy/Co2/in/out, think (chocolate covered raisin or dipping a...

strawberry in chocolate) once appearing on scan, death under 12hrs in 80% of cases ON VENTS. until they went ECMO...Vents don't work after 2hrs! IMMUNE SYSTEM KICKS UP TO MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE TO ATTACK INTIBATION TUBE AND LUNG SACKS IN 80% OF VENT. CASES! 11 saved off...

Diamond Princess with ECMO after 7 deaths, 88 saved in Japan with ECMO after 12 deaths without, 2100 cases now and only 54 deaths now. All Docs have been ordered to have ECMO on standby for all patients. American Docs are way behind the curve right now. They don't understand...

this thing right now. One would think that all medical professionals would want as much info as possible, Jap Docs say the USA IS NOT LISTENING! With Attitudes/ Stances /Egos/ Fears/ Hubris/ Stubbornness/ Bureaucracy like that, U.S. Docs will find themselves in Italy's Situation,

As the Chinese first did, until they heard Japan Docs screaming ECMO, they too were at a loss, so much so, that they turned THAT SHIP FULL OF MED SUPPLIES (ecmo, vents, ppe) AROUND TO USE FOR THEMSELVES! THEY DID IT FOR THE ECMOS...NOT THE OTHER STUFF...THEY HAD ALL THAT STUFF...

THEY NEEDED THE ECMOS! American Docs Don't Understand what's hitting them, Maybe They Should Listen TO How Others Learned To Save Lives, Not Italy That Continues Losing Many! JAP DOCS SAY US MED. PROS ARE HEARING ECMO....BUT THEY ARE NOT LISTENING...THEY HEAR ECMO AND FALL INTO,

THE NORMAL PROCEDURE OF USING ECMO...ECMO IS NOT THE LAST RESORT WITH COVID 19...IT'S THE ONLY RESORT! AGAIN, WHEN ITS TIME TO VENT OR INTIBATE...IT'S TOO FUCKING LATE! NO MATTER HOW MUCH OXYGEN YOU PUT IN THE LUNGS IT CANNOT GET INTO THE BLOOD STREAM...

CUZ THE LUNG SACKS ARE SMOTHERED! HENCE ECMO! BUT BOOM...AS SOON AS ECMO STARTS, THE BODY GETS ALMOST FULL OXYGEN AND STARTS FIGHTING RIGHT AWAY! LUNGS START CLEARING IN A FEW HRS. Jap docs have done the SEE ONE, DO ONE, TEACH ONE...FOR ALL HANDS ON DECK ECMO...

due to the special skills for ECMO! I'm just an American Radio Guy living in a COUNTRY THAT WAS AT FIRST DEVASTATED BY WHAT IS HITTING YOU NOW...AND GOT IT UNDER THE BEST CONTROL THAT CAN BE RIGHT NOW...Things are 90% back now. Schools opening, People staggering rush hrs...

on public transportation, Yes, New cases everyday, but very few are critical, only about 1% need hospitalization and 1 death about every 3 days cuz using ecmo. 90% of work force is back in the office. Restaurants/Bars are open, keeping spacing, Over half of the people on the...

street and trains HAVE NO MASK ON! Down from 98%...BECAUSE THEY WORK! From Someone That Has Been Living It FOR 10 WEEKS, With what is coming your way... I send all prayers that can be sent, cuz, you're all gonna need it! PLEASE GET THIS TO DOCTORS/MED PROS/ OR THE PERSON...

THAT YOU HAVE A SWAY WITH! I have sent tweets to many docs/cdc/nih/ny gov/potus/media...got about 4 smart-ass comments from docs and nurses that "we know ecmo, not new tech, use it when app, leave it to the pros"! PLEASE GET THIS TO SOMEONE THAT WILL LISTEN!...

Sorry for the CAP YELLING, but no one is listening. PLEASE LISTEN, IT WILL SAVE LIVES! God Bless Us All!

Anyone with any type of POWER OR PLATFORM...PLEASE CALL FOR A NATIONAL ECMO TEAM CALL OUT AND SEND TO NY & OTHER HOTSPOTS. 10-20 TEAMS... 50% OF DEATHS CAN BE CUT! FOR GOD'S SAKE...PLEASE LISTEN AND ACT! Again, Sorry for the yelling. No One Is Listening!

Update: As of this A.M. 4/1/2020... 3,000 Total Cases Including 712 From Diamond Princess. 70 Total Deaths. Including 10 From Diamond Princess. 247 Saved Using ECMO! Ventilators only used when ECMO not available! 87% Death Rate Using Vents. 93% Survival Rate on ECMO! ECMO SAVES!

Someone/Medical Institution needs to be the HERO for this crisis! Stand up 20-100 ECMO TEAMS & flood NY, LA. and ALL OTHER HOT SPOTS! In Japan doing the SEE ONE, DO ONE, TEACH ONE, As of Today 4/01/20, 1 ECMO Specialist is Running/Supervising 10 ECMO TEAMS...!

Average 36hrs-48hrs. per Patient. Enough time for body to get enough oxygen to calm the immune system just enough to fight COVID 19 instead of its own body. Japan Med. establishment believes so much in ECMO, actually trying buy ecmos from China! Japan NEVER BUYS CHINA MED. EQUIP.

04/02 Update: 3,000 total cases, ONLY 67 Deaths...including 10 from Diamond Princess. 367 SAVED ON AWAKE ECMO, 2nd last resort treatment Sedated ECMO, Final Resort VENTILATOR. Reminder: ECMO IS ONLY RESORT WHEN TIME TO VENT. VENTS DEATH RATE: 87%. ECMO Save Rate Now 90%...

Total Population: 130 Million in a land mass of California. Starting 2nd wave now of pos. cases...Test n Track with a work from home if possible with 50% school reopening, staggered rush hrs., every other day in office work, Social Distancing Weekends. Stay Home If You Are Sick!

3 months of above policies have kept pos. cases to 3,000, with boarders/flights open but a mandatory 14 day self isolation/no public transit rule. more un-trackable community spread weekly so 2nd wave upon us. But, herd immume. expected wave 2 down 50%.

update: 4/9/2022 5,000 pos. cases. still under 100 total deaths. BUT...wave 2 is here, there was NEVER a country wide lock down. STATE OF EMERGENCY has been declared for 7 of most populated regions. Really not much different except it gives local gov the power to stop large...

gatherings and night spots, enforce social distancing. ADVISE work from home, close non-ess. biz, but cannot order.(Japan Constitution Forbids Nat. Gov., only gives limited power to local gov.) Trace and track cannot account for 60% of new cases. So A More Strongly ADISEMENT...

Japan Treatment Policy REMAINS...Do EVERYTHING POSSIBLE to Keep Covid19 patients OFF VETNITLATORS! 80-90% DEATH RATE ON VENTS.! Vents hurt more than help. CANNOT get enough O2 into bloodstream with vents(see top of thread), Causes CYTOKINE STORM to rise to levels NEVER SEEN B4...

#1 NEED/PRIORITY IS O2 IN BLOODSTEAM! IF Vent is needed, MOVE TO AWAKE ECMO 1st! Don't put on vent then wait til last moment and add ECMO! 98% Death from that point. 1st is AWAKE ECMO. 2-SEDATED ECMO. 3-VENT. & ECMO. But Jap Ecmo Drs. tell me they have had to pull back...

on BATTLEFIELD ECMO PLAN(see abv. thread). To Their Massive Disappointment/Shock THE WORLD ECMO COMMUNITY has strong pushed back and requested to retreat to standard Ecmo protocol. Sterile Pressure Rooms, NO NON PREVIOUSLY TRAINED STAFF INVOLED/SEE ONE, DO ONE, TEACH ONE...

85-90% Survival rate on ECMO still holding...BUT NOW BACK TO FEWER PATIENTS ABLE TO BE TREATED... But they are have great success with some drugs helping keep people off vent/ecmo. more later, have a call with a few Drs. later tonight. Fight for ECMO if u/ur's need to be vented!