The way you phrase that is troubling. Intubation doesn’t kill people. People get intubated because they’re going to die without it. Every invasive procedure has its risks, and those are weighed before doing it.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Intubation is risky because the act of intubation itself can introduce deadly pathogens, like MRSA, into the lungs.

Catheterization kills people too, for similar reasons.

People get intubated because they will die without it, meaning the risk of dying from intubation outweighs the guarantee of dying without it.

Intubation is more likely than not going to give you a nasty infection. More than 60% if patients intubated during the pandemic caught some form of secondary infection from the process.

[–] Chuymatt@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago

That is what I said.