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kozar

(2,109 posts)
Thu Jan 5, 2023, 07:37 PM Jan 2023

Just for comparison about critical condition,

Last edited Fri Jan 6, 2023, 12:52 PM - Edit history (1)

It’s a standard medical term, if in ICU, you are more than likely classified as critical. Case in point,

My right leg swelled 5 yrs ago, I went to ER, next thing I’m in an ambulance, bi-lateral PEs. I’m rushed into procedure room, my street shorts still on as they pass tubes through my heart, to my lungs, to pass anticoagulants to the clots.
Of course I’m in ICU, I’m have tubes all over me and not supposed to move for 24 hours. They didn’t intubate me, but they had me on Seds.
I’m just saying, given what I went through, and what I’m reading, this is pretty standard. You in ICU, you are, and should be, critical. MSM will frame it as they need to.

I believe this guy will be ok, and the stories are MSM click bait.

Koz

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