For many, ventilators represent their last chance.
, for most COVID-19 patients the oxygen-providing apparatus will merely serve as a bridge from life to death.
At Lenox Hill Hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side,"hope huddles" allow emergency room staffers to take a moment amid the suffering to discuss small victories – such as successful"extubations" when patients are weaned from the machines. Some patients may be on a ventilator for only a few hours or days, but experts say COVID-19 patients often remain on the ventilators for 10 days or more.
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