My friend's 12 yr-old niece is in a hospital in Brooklyn being treated for covid-19. Last night they intubated her. I just found out about it this evening and sent him all of the information that I found from this site regarding the treatment packs in India and contact information for the frontlinedoctors web-site. He is in contact with them and God willing, will be able to demand the appropriate treatment for her using the right to try law.
I cannot believe that we are over a year into this and the friggin' doctors STILL are not using the proper treatments.
What else can I do to help my friend help his family?
Any advice is welcome but most of all my sincere thanks to everybody who has posted such helpful information.
Update 4/25/21: Just found out from my friend that the doctor is saying the girl will need to be on a vent until at least Friday. To make matters even worse, she's at Elmhurst hospital where they were literally picking off patients. I am so heartsick for him and his family and fear that this will end badly.
You are great person. What you can do is be there for your friend as they might try to fight the proper treatment tooth and nail.
Be firm and consistent.
The respirator is used when blood oxygen levels are too low. But COVID causes micro clotting in the lungs which requires an anticoagulant/blood thinner to resolve so the oxygen can transfer from the lungs to the blood.
Right but they usually are reluctant to resort to that with young patients. Even with adult patients they are reluctant to do so.
It is a drastic step and unless we are missing information from the story from the opening post of the thread it is hard to determine why they took such a drastic step. Was it many weeks or not even a week?
My relative used a hi glow oxygen machine , it was really lucky , drs wanted to intubate, he would not have suvived, 10 minutes on the hi flow he stabilized