There is often low survival rates for covid patients that are put on ventilator, but now an early study at Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Stockholm shows 80% survival rate.
Of 62 cases with an outcome, 48 survived and 14 died.
"The largest study to date, conducted in the UK on 3,883 patients, showed that half of the patients survived the treatment. A smaller study from Washington in the US also showed that the chance of survival was around 50 percent."
"- We don't know today, but there could be possible explanations. We look closely to see if you have "reasonable prospects for coping with intensive care and recovery. If we make the assessment that the patient cannot benefit from care we can refrain from offering it. Another is that we work closely with infectious doctors and that we do not delay in setting this treatment so that patients receive care before the disease has progressed too far.
According to the British study, the risk of dying increases the longer a patient is connected to a respirator. Here, too, the early figures from Karolinska show hopeful results: on average, a patient is on intensive care for just over a week.
- It's shorter than we've heard from other parts of the world, says David Konrad.
But it is too early to draw any certain conclusions from the results that are based on a small basis."
https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyh... (In Swedish)
This is portrayed as hopeful in Swedish news, but obviously it is also an admission that an unknown quantity of patients are never offered ICU care. I guess this is the case in most countries (judging from the amount of deaths in nursing homes in many countries) but some sort of standard would have been most helpful for this kind of comparison. They say it will be at least a month, before they can be sure of any conclusions.
