Images Of Covid Patients On Ventilators. The machines may not increase survival odds — and they can cause problems of their own. About a quarter of coronavirus patients who needed ventilators to help them breathe died within the first few weeks of treatment, a study of New York's largest health system showed.
But emerging mortality data paint a more negative picture. But experts say these patients may have a. At the beginning of the pandemic, health officials were worried whether there would be a shortage of ventilators to intubate COVID patients with serious breathing and lung problems.
At the beginning of the pandemic, health officials were worried whether there would be a shortage of ventilators to intubate COVID patients with serious breathing and lung problems.
It's one of the biggest medical questions of the day, along with how effective the antimalarial.
But emerging mortality data paint a more negative picture. A doctor operates a ventilator in an intensive care unit in. About a quarter of coronavirus patients who needed ventilators to help them breathe died within the first few weeks of treatment, a study of New York's largest health system showed.