Abstract

ECHEZURIA MARIN, Franklin Eduardo  and  QUIJADA MORILLO, Rosanna J. Invasive mechanical ventilation in COVID-19, a deadly strategy?. Med. crít. (Col. Mex. Med. Crít.) [online]. 2022, vol.36, n.1, pp.45-49.  Epub Oct 28, 2022. ISSN 2448-8909.  https://doi.org/10.35366/104475.

Since the Copenhagen polio epidemic in 1952, intensive care has not faced as important a challenge from a medical and media point of view as the COVID-19 pandemic, which has had devastating consequences, one of which is the overflow in the capacity of intensive care units, and as a result of the capacity to offer mechanical ventilation has been insufficient, in addition to the overwhelming and rapidly changing characteristics of medical and non-medical information, also of disease-related mortality, has developed a deleterious narrative to the treatment of these patients with invasive ventilatory support and raising old questions about this as injuries induced by invasive mechanical ventilation. All this has promoted the rise of non-invasive ventilatory support as a saving lifes strategy, however, as we will see, this approach, in scope of the evidence, is erroneous and can be hazardous not only for the patient but also for health personnel who care for them.

Keywords : Mechanical ventilation; COVID-19; acute respiratory distress syndrome; non invasive ventilation; SARS-CoV-2.

        · abstract in Spanish | Portuguese     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )