The End of the "Syndrome" in Critical Care

[llynn]

If you have followed this thread please join in the discussion at the new linked thread which discusses Syndrome Science based research of ARDS, which was perceived as relating to the critical care management of COVID pneumonia.

Review of Trial at the Center of the Firestorm Over Early Connection of Patients to Ventilators during the Pandemic

Presently there is a disturbing and growing outcry in social media that physicians willfully placed patients with COVID pneumonia on invasive mechanical ventilators, negligently contributing to their death. This misguided narrative is hard to understand and, of course, completely false. However, where did this bizarre idea come from? It appears that a plurality of social media influencers have advanced this retrospectively derived narrative, citing the approach, early in the pandemic, to pro…