Happy Birthday to FLOTUS
Ventilator-associated pneumonia is a dirty secret in the medical field. Have not heard one person mention it except for POTUS alluding to it when he mentioned the low survival rate for CoVid patients put on a ventilator. All this discussion on ventilators and zero on VAP.
Now comes an technology that could reduce VAP significantly and it's banned on Twitter & YouTube. Should make anyone wonder who they are really serving.
https://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e3325
http://www.ihi.org/resources/Pages/ImprovementStories/VAPGettingtoZeroandStayingThere.aspx
With a mortality rate approaching 50 percent, ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is one of the most dreaded infections that can strike a hospital patient. It afflicts up to 15 percent of those in intensive care units (ICUs) so weakened by illness or trauma that they need mechanical help to breathe. When the ventilator tube that pumps life-saving air into vulnerable lungs becomes contaminated, it can act as a pathway for bacteria or secretions to enter the respiratory tract, paving the way to a deadly VAP.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(13)70081-1/fulltext
The overall attributable mortality of ventilator-associated pneumonia is 13%, with higher rates for surgical patients and patients with a mid-range severity score at admission. Attributable mortality is mainly caused by prolonged exposure to the risk of dying due to increased length of ICU stay.
Information is power.
Genetic information on an individual is prolly the most power you can have over that person.
Interesting.