Atlantic Health System CEO Brian Gragnolati told CNBC that mortality rates and length of stays in ICUs for coronavirus patients have come down as a result of new approaches to care.
and serves 11 counties in New Jersey, said the use of ventilators is one area where care has changed. Early on, patients who were transferred to the intensive care unit with severe respiratory challenges from Covid-19 often were "immediately" put on ventilators, he said.
"We realized that while that worked in many of the diseases and surgeries and things that we do, in this particular instance it wasn't working as well," he said. Doctors and nurses came to find that proning patients — putting them on their stomachs — was beneficial, Gragnolati said, as was using "high concentration of oxygen" throughAs a result, complications related to long-term ventilator use have "really changed and that's driven down dramatically both the mortality but also the length of stay in our ICUs," said Gragnolati, who is also past chairman of the American Hospital...
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