The difference in the use of ECMO in the vaccinated versus the unvaccinated population of patients.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34906383/

This is a doozy of a study.  The juicy details of this study are what the data said, NOT what the focus of the study was!

This focus of this study was to create a meta analysis of 134 studies, looking at the data of patients who were put on ECMO for covid, and what the mortality rate was for patients who were put on ECMO for covid.  It compared mortality rates with ECMO use for influenza versus covid.

Let’s start with what ECMO is.  Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) is a form of life support for people with life-threatening illness or injury that affects the function of their heart or lungs. The ECMO machine pumps and oxygenates a patient’s blood outside the body, allowing the heart and lungs to rest. When you are connected to an ECMO, blood flows through tubing to an artificial lung in the machine that adds oxygen and takes out carbon dioxide; then it’s warmed to body temperature and pumped back into your body.  You may remember back in the early days of covid, we used ECMO under the logic and reasoning of “their lungs are so bad, they cannot oxygenate properly, the ventilator alone isn’t sufficient, so we will use ECMO until their lungs heal”.

The study results were as follows: Of the total number of 58,472 patients with COVID-19 reported, ECMO was used in 4,044 patients. The analysis suggested an overall in-hospital mortality of 39% for covid patients who received ECMO treatment.  Lets look at those numbers.  (I am rounding them for simplification of the math).  58,000 covid patients, 4,000 received ECMO.  That is roughly 6-7% of total covid patients in this study that received ECMO.  Out of the 4,000 who received ECMO, 39% died, or 1,577 people.

In the comparative analysis, patients with COVID-19 on ECMO had a higher risk ratio (RR) for mortality when compared to influenza patients on ECMO: 44% risk ratio with covid versus 38% risk ratio with influenza.  They concluded that ECMO could be beneficial in covid patients.

OK so fine and dandy.  Looks like a typical study.  But look at this!!!  Credit goes to JikkyLeaks on Twitter for this information!

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This really concerns me. According to the ICNAR data Caz supplied, there were no differences in the mean FiO2 between vaccinated and unvaccinated in the ICU. So why were 15-20 times more unvaccinated people being put on ECMO? https://t.co/KJ24XNUHqV https://t.co/sT4AcLzyp9

Knowing that the study above showed a 39% mortality rate with ECMO in covid patients, another researcher started looking at WHAT patients were being put on ECMO.  And they compiled this data below from the

https://www.icnarc.org

website.

This ICANR data that was compiled by an ECMO critical care physician, and vehement pro-vaxxer, looks at unvaccinated, 1x vaxxed, and 2x vaxxed and were put onto ECMO for covid.

Of the patients put onto ECMO, 7202 were unvaccinated, 526 had one vaccine, and 4201 had received 2 vaccines.  So there were far more unvaccinated people put onto ECMO than vaccinated patients.

Here is where things get interesting.  The reason for ECMO (as discussed above) is that your lungs are not working, you are not perfusing oxygen to your body properly and you need the ECMO machine to do the work of your heart and lungs for you.  Pay very close attention to the bottom data that is highlighted.  The FiO2 is the inspired oxygen concentration. If your lungs are failing you'll need more oxygen.

The FiO2 is the same in each group - 60%.  Yet the ECMO doctor who put this table together was trying to insinuate that the unvaccinated were the worst off, yet that FiO2 reading was UPON ADMISSION to the hosptial. So, the unvaccinated had the same FiO2 readings as the vaccinated did.  So why did the unvaccinated end up on ECMO more often than the vaccinated did, when their admission status was the same?  How many incidents have we heard from about discrimination towards the unvaccinated in the hospital setting and how they were treated?  How many horrible social media posts did we see from ICU physicians who bad mouthed the unvaccinated, who went as far as to say they would deny them a bed in favor of the vaccinated?  Who wished the unvaccinated would face death for their vaccine choice?

“Do we have a group of ICU doctors who hated the unvaccinated and who coincidentally decide that 15 times more unvaccinated should go on the highest risk pathway ECMO machine with a 40% mortality rate in modern medicine compared to the "vaccinated" using that same treatment when both populations HAD THE SAME OXYGENATION LEVELS?  Even though their admission state was the same?

Many of you have read the 2020 midazolam allegations that covid patients were intubated and given midazolam to kill them.  Was ECMO used to cull the herd of the unvaccinated?

If you have a loved one who was put on ECMO in 2021-2022, and did not survive, I would request their records and consult an attorney.  Just as I would do if you lost a loved one in 2020 that was on a ventilator and received midazolam.