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hyperinflation from pressures set too high on ventilators prob killed a lot of covid patients during covid, the lung would be filled with excessive mucous so pressures would be much higher than in normal lung
asthma is a disease of inflammation, they try to never put asthmatics on ventilators because of chance of hyperinflation is very risky, and the inflammation causes excessive mucous …
the covid 19 patient prob presented a lot like an asthmatic
asthmatic are placed on ventliators as last resort, asthma can kill.. the pulmonologists make sure the pressures are as low as possible when treating asthmatics with mechanical ventilation
during covid in the chaos im sure mistakes were made and it was hyperiniflation that killed patients, not the ventilator itself but the orders written by the physicians
they possibly mightve died regardless, without being put on the ventilator, high PEEP of 22 is only used in critically ill patients