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yea but we dont have any data as to why? is it because some number of them were over/under anesthetized? is it because of the triage criteria? I do agree that palliative care is a critical discussion because of the mortality rates for the very elderly-- some people are just to frail to ever have good outcomes from intibation.

by the way, the critically interesting thing in that piece from the lancet is that the rational for discouraging non invasive respiration is a lack of good masks and negative pressure rooms. These are problems where I think there has been an historical lack of imagination and are ripe for some novel solutions.