Sunday 29 March 2020

USE OF A VENTILATOR

The National 30 March 2020 P.29

People wear a mask to connect with a ventilator that helps prevent the collapse of alveoli lung air sacs. 

This enables the passage of oxygen and carbon dioxide. The lung is incapacitated with severe coronavirus. The oxygen can not be absorbed. Carbon dioxide can not pass out and clogs the blood.

Pneumonia is brought on by coronavirus that inflames the lung membranes and fills the sacs with liquid.

In the worst cases, the patients have to be hooked up to ventilators in intensive care units. At an earlier stage the respirator is used.

COVID-19 can be a mild infection. But it will turn fatal with pneumonia and pre-existing illnesses such as tuberculosis, diabetes 2, high blood pressure, strokes, kidney disease, HIV/AIDS and asthma.


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