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How Coronavirus Kills: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) & COVID 19 Treatment

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Medicine & infectious disease

What it is

A pulmonologist and critical care physician explains how COVID-19 can lead to pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome. He covers evidence-based ARDS treatments such as low tidal volume ventilation.

Why Hacker News recommends it

In early 2020 HN commenters linked it as a clear explanation of how the virus kills through lung failure and why ventilator choices matter, notably in ventilator design threads.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2020

What HN commenters said

  1. “see this informative explanation”

    Informative explanation of ARDS and its treatment

    hybrid_cluster, 2020-01 · Recommendation · in “WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency”

  2. “explaining how the virus eventually kills by causing failure of the lungs”

    Explains how the virus kills through lung failure

    taf2, 2020-03 · Recommendation · in “Low-Cost Arduino-Based Ventilator”

  3. “It shows why machines like CPAP aren't appropriate too.”

    ARDS in COVID and why CPAP is inappropriate

    brigandish, 2020-03 · Recommendation · in “E-VENT: Emergency ventilator design toolbox”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: ards, covid-19, ventilators, critical care, pneumonia

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