How Coronavirus Kills: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) & Treatment

was down and the backrest - up. We call this prone positioning, and if done for about 17 to 18 hours a day, it can actually reduce the mortality rate, which is estimated to drop from 33 percent to 16 percent. This article was published in 2013, so you can see here three advances in the

treatment

of ARDS, the common pathway of morbidity and mortality in the

coronavirus

we talked about. But the other thing that's interesting is that we can do a lot if we catch the disease early and get people to the hospital and the intensive care unit and put them on ventilators.

We've got the right ways to treat it right and three things that actually make it better. So we have a good chance not to increase mortality statistics, but to survive. So really the purpose of showing these new developments is to make sure that people understand the medical context of what's happening. Sometimes these stories about how emergency measures can be very scary and for good reason, but we need to understand what is happening from a medical point of view because knowledge is power. If you have any other questions about this, please visit my site medcram.com. Thank you for joining us.