Here's what the seven stages of severe COVID-19 look like

[ThatOwlWoman]

On the front lines, here’s what the seven stages of severe COVID-19 look like

Stage 1. You’ve had debilitating symptoms for a few days, but now it is so hard to breathe that you come to the emergency room. Your oxygen saturation level tells us you need help, a supplemental flow of 1 to 4 liters of oxygen per minute. We admit you and start you on antivirals, steroids, anticoagulants or monoclonal antibodies. You’ll spend several days in the hospital feeling run-down, but if we can wean you off the oxygen, you’ll get discharged. You survive.

Stage 2. It becomes harder and harder for you to breathe. “Like drowning,” many patients describe the feeling. The bronchodilator treatments we give you provide little relief. Your oxygen requirements increase significantly, from 4 liters to 15 liters to 40 liters per minute. Little things, like relieving yourself or sitting up in bed, become too difficult for you to do on your own. Your oxygen saturation rapidly declines when you move about. We transfer you to the intensive care unit.

Stage 3. You’re exhausted from hyperventilating to satisfy your body’s demand for air. We put you on noninvasive, “positive pressure” ventilation — a big, bulky face mask that must be Velcro’d tightly around your face so the machine can efficiently push pressure into your lungs to pop them open so you get enough of the oxygen it delivers.

Stage 4. Your breathing becomes even more labored. We can tell you’re severely fatigued. An arterial blood draw confirms that the oxygen content in your blood is critically low. We prepare to intubate you. If you’re able to and if there’s time, we will suggest that you call your loved ones. This might be the last time they’ll hear your voice. We connect you to a ventilator. You are sedated and paralyzed, fed through a feeding tube, hooked to a Foley catheter and a rectal tube. We turn your limp body regularly, so you don’t develop pressure ulcers — bed sores. We bathe you and keep you clean. We flip you onto your stomach to allow for better oxygenation. We will try experimental therapeutics.

Stage 5. Some patients survive Stage 4. Unfortunately, your oxygen levels and overall condition have not improved after several days on the ventilator. Your COVID-infested lungs need assistance and time to heal, something that an ECMO machine, which bypasses your lungs and oxygenates your blood, can provide. But alas, our community hospital doesn’t have that capability. If you’re stable enough, you will get transferred to another hospital for that therapy. Otherwise, we’ll continue treating you as best we can. We’re understaffed and overwhelmed, but we’ll always give you the best care we can.

Stage 6. The pressure required to open your lungs is so high that air can leak into your chest cavity, so we insert tubes to clear it out. Your kidneys fail to filter the byproducts from the drugs we continuously give you. Despite diuretics, your entire body swells from fluid retention, and you require dialysis to help with your renal function. The long hospital stay and your depressed immune system make you susceptible to infections. A chest X-ray shows fluid accumulating in your lung sacs. A blood clot may show up, too. We can’t prevent these complications at this point; we treat them as they present. If your blood pressure drops critically, we will administer vasopressors to bring it up, but your heart may stop anyway. After several rounds of CPR, we’ll get your pulse and circulation back. But soon, your family will need to make a difficult decision.

Stage 7: After several meetings with the palliative care team, your family decides to withdraw care. We extubate you, turning off the breathing machinery. We set up a final FaceTime call with your loved ones. As we work in your room, we hear crying and loving goodbyes. We cry, too, and we hold your hand until your last natural breath.

I've worked in the ICU. This is chillingly accurate.

And as is true of every other factual article regarding COVID, it will fall on deaf ears/blind eyes. *sigh*

 

[zymurgy]

I've worked in the ICU. This is chillingly accurate.

And as is true of every other factual article regarding COVID, it will fall on deaf ears/blind eyes. *sigh*

death is unpleasant?

wow - you guys are so fucking wise

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

Get rid of your morbitities, go for daily walks, take your C, D3, Zinc, Quercetin, Magnesium & probiotic. Get all the sugar & sugary carbs out of the house.
My rona episode was mild and over in 3 days...as most people experience. If you don't take care of yourself, you make it very difficult for any therapeutic
or vax to attain maximum efficacy.
Grow up and take of yourself!

Right. The "'rona" you got from your physicians. lol

It's a mystery why the gods allow nasty virtue-signaling assholes like you to recover when so many good ppl do not.

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

Other countries make an effort to prevent major COVID by treating upon positive test. We mostly tell people to do noting untill/unless they get majorly sick, which is malpractice of medicine.

More of your unsourced bullshit. Sister Stench claims that she got monoclonal antibody therapy as soon as she tested positive. She lives in FL. Florida is not another country.

Now scoot on back to the gossip girls thread where your b.s. is eagerly lapped up.

 

[volsrock]

On the front lines, here’s what the seven stages of severe COVID-19 look like

Stage 1. You’ve had debilitating symptoms for a few days, but now it is so hard to breathe that you come to the emergency room. Your oxygen saturation level tells us you need help, a supplemental flow of 1 to 4 liters of oxygen per minute. We admit you and start you on antivirals, steroids, anticoagulants or monoclonal antibodies. You’ll spend several days in the hospital feeling run-down, but if we can wean you off the oxygen, you’ll get discharged. You survive. 99% will

Stage 2. It becomes harder and harder for you to breathe. “Like drowning,” many patients describe the feeling. The bronchodilator treatments we give you provide little relief. Your oxygen requirements increase significantly, from 4 liters to 15 liters to 40 liters per minute. Little things, like relieving yourself or sitting up in bed, become too difficult for you to do on your own. Your oxygen saturation rapidly declines when you move about. We transfer you to the intensive care unit.

Stage 3. You’re exhausted from hyperventilating to satisfy your body’s demand for air. We put you on noninvasive, “positive pressure” ventilation — a big, bulky face mask that must be Velcro’d tightly around your face so the machine can efficiently push pressure into your lungs to pop them open so you get enough of the oxygen it delivers.

Stage 4. Your breathing becomes even more labored. We can tell you’re severely fatigued. An arterial blood draw confirms that the oxygen content in your blood is critically low. We prepare to intubate you. If you’re able to and if there’s time, we will suggest that you call your loved ones. This might be the last time they’ll hear your voice. We connect you to a ventilator. You are sedated and paralyzed, fed through a feeding tube, hooked to a Foley catheter and a rectal tube. We turn your limp body regularly, so you don’t develop pressure ulcers — bed sores. We bathe you and keep you clean. We flip you onto your stomach to allow for better oxygenation. We will try experimental therapeutics.

Stage 5. Some patients survive Stage 4. Unfortunately, your oxygen levels and overall condition have not improved after several days on the ventilator. Your COVID-infested lungs need assistance and time to heal, something that an ECMO machine, which bypasses your lungs and oxygenates your blood, can provide. But alas, our community hospital doesn’t have that capability. If you’re stable enough, you will get transferred to another hospital for that therapy. Otherwise, we’ll continue treating you as best we can. We’re understaffed and overwhelmed, but we’ll always give you the best care we can.

Stage 6. The pressure required to open your lungs is so high that air can leak into your chest cavity, so we insert tubes to clear it out. Your kidneys fail to filter the byproducts from the drugs we continuously give you. Despite diuretics, your entire body swells from fluid retention, and you require dialysis to help with your renal function. The long hospital stay and your depressed immune system make you susceptible to infections. A chest X-ray shows fluid accumulating in your lung sacs. A blood clot may show up, too. We can’t prevent these complications at this point; we treat them as they present. If your blood pressure drops critically, we will administer vasopressors to bring it up, but your heart may stop anyway. After several rounds of CPR, we’ll get your pulse and circulation back. But soon, your family will need to make a difficult decision.

Stage 7: After several meetings with the palliative care team, your family decides to withdraw care. We extubate you, turning off the breathing machinery. We set up a final FaceTime call with your loved ones. As we work in your room, we hear crying and loving goodbyes. We cry, too, and we hold your hand until your last natural breath.

you forgot a stage

The Main Stage that 99% of the people that catch it survive..so I fixed your stage 1

 

[LV426]

You mean Biden is not going to end the pandemic?

He did end the pandemic...for the people who matter.

For you clowns, the pandemic will be there indefinitely and will catch up with you sooner or later...

 

[LV426]

The Main Stage that 99% of the people that catch it survive

Surviving COVID and recovering from COVID are two completely different things.

So you might survive COVID, but you lost your sense of taste and smell.

So you might survive COVID, but you have diminished lung capacity.

So you might survive COVID, but you lose some cognitive ability.

So you might survive COVID, but you have to pay higher health care costs now because of the preexisting condition.

So you might survive COVID, but your quality of life doesn't.

 

[zymurgy]

Not as long as the perpetually stupid anti vaxxers are amongst us.

so we can't eradicate the flu or Hep C - but this one will be eliminated by vaccine

I question your science credentials. I think you are dumb and believe dumb things

 

[volsrock]

Surviving COVID and recovering from COVID are two completely different things.

So you might survive COVID, but you lost your sense of taste and smell.

So you might survive COVID, but you have diminished lung capacity.

So you might survive COVID, but you lose some cognitive ability.

So you might survive COVID, but you have to pay higher health care costs now because of the preexisting condition.

So you might survive COVID, but your quality of life doesn't.

MIGHT? 99% is not a MIGHT its as close to a YOU WILL as u can get

Link to Tom Hanks stating he lost any of that

My son and his wife had it and are 100% fine

 

[LV426]

Link to Tom Hanks stating he lost any of that

He didn't have a severe case, but millions of people have.

Who do you think they're going to blame for their lower quality of life, the people who tried to get them vaccinated, or the people who tried to prevent them from getting vaccinated?

My son and his wife had it and are 100% fine

So your son and wife don't wash their hands.

That's what you're telling me when you tell me this; that your family are as filthy as barnyard animals.

Also, I don't believe you....

PROVE that you're married.

PROVE that you have a son.

PROVE that they caught COVID.

PROVE that they're 100% fine.

 

[Phantasmal]

so we can't eradicate the flu or Hep C - but this one will be eliminated by vaccine

I question your science credentials. I think you are dumb and believe dumb things

If everyone would get the vaccinations, there is a possibility. People refuse to get vaccinated.

 

[LV426]

My son and his wife had it and are 100% fine

Did you just fucking lie about a fake wife and fake son on JPP to try and lend credibility to your bullshit argument on an anonymous message board?

What a fucking loser.

 

[LV426]

so we can't eradicate the flu or Hep C - but this one will be eliminated by vaccine

But we very nearly did eradicate the flu last year.

In all of the US, there were only about 1,000 cases of it in 2020.

 

[zymurgy]

But we very nearly did eradicate the flu last year.

In all of the US, there were only about 1,000 cases of it in 2020.

cuckoo

 

[LV426]

cuckoo

Crybaby.

 

[Phantasmal]

I've worked in the ICU. This is chillingly accurate.

And as is true of every other factual article regarding COVID, it will fall on deaf ears/blind eyes. *sigh*

My friend in AK improved enough to be sent home on oxygen, he’s still on oxygen, and can barely walk across the living room without being exhausted. The hospitals are overwhelmed, so they are sending people home.

 

[zymurgy]

Crybaby.

cuckoo is old - here is the new copypasta

How many do you think will make it to November 2022? Not many at this current rate.

the vast majority that get covid live. this is true of vaccinated and unvaccinated.

Yeah, but they have lifelong conditions now.

way to move that goal post troll boy

YOU changed the debate to this ridiculous survival metric...as if surviving COVID is the same thing as fully recovering from it.

 

[Nordberg]

Surviving COVID and recovering from COVID are two completely different things.

So you might survive COVID, but you lost your sense of taste and smell.

So you might survive COVID, but you have diminished lung capacity.

So you might survive COVID, but you lose some cognitive ability.

So you might survive COVID, but you have to pay higher health care costs now because of the preexisting condition.

So you might survive COVID, but your quality of life doesn't.

Many have brain fog, which indicates many righty of this board survived it, but not cleanly.

 

[zymurgy]

If everyone would get the vaccinations, there is a possibility. People refuse to get vaccinated.

when is the entire world going to submit to vaccination?

the Delta mutated in India before a vaccine existed.

those vaccinated carry the full load, so they remain a host for the virus to live and mutate more

I don't want to say never, but the chances of eradication of this, flu, or hep c is not looking very good.

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

so we can't eradicate the flu or Hep C - but this one will be eliminated by vaccine

I question your science credentials. I think you are dumb and believe dumb things

Ironic, calling someone else "dumb" while you try to equate an extremely contagious coronavirus-caused disease with Hep C. And no, we haven't eradicated either influenza (which mutates albeit more slowly than SARS-CoV-2) and Hep C precisely because not everyone will get vaxxed against them.

Had smallpox lately? Know anyone who's under age 50 who's had a smallpox vaccine?