Physicians rethinking use of ventilators for some COVID-19 patients

(By Anuja Vaidya for Becker’s Hospital Review)

Some COVID-19 patients come to the hospital with low blood oxygen levels — levels that should have them gasping for air — but instead, these patients are awake and talking, resulting in some physicians rethinking the use of ventilators for them, according to The Wall Street Journal.  Continue reading article here…

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