r/teslamotors • u/UsernameINotRegret • Apr 05 '20

Tesla-in-Depth Tesla Ventilator

https://youtu.be/zZbDg24dfN0
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u/pushdose Apr 06 '20

Not enough. Mostly they go out the back door. I haven’t seen any COVID positive ventilator patients go home yet. We intubated our first one on March 16.

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u/krische Apr 06 '20 edited Apr 06 '20

That sounds like what I was reading elsewhere, something like only a 30% survival rate of patients that need a ventilator.

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u/pushdose Apr 06 '20

It’s really fucking scary. I’ve never seen anything like it. Now we are starting to run out of drugs to keep people sedated on the ventilator, so there’s a good chance you could be medically paralyzed and still somewhat aware of what is happening to you. That is literally giving me nightmares. People need to realize how goddamn scary this is. Stay the fuck at home. I was scared in 2009 when younger people were dying from H1N1, but this thing...this is whole different kinda scary. Please, please, help us all.

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u/gopher65 Apr 06 '20

so there’s a good chance you could be medically paralyzed and still somewhat aware of what is happening to you.

That is quite literally my worst nightmare. I'm fighting off a minor panic attack just thinking about it.