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Let’s say you test positive for COVID-19 and are asymptomatic, so you go home to self-isolate. Five days later you start having respiratory distress and are admitted to the hospital, having to leave your loved one(s) at the door.
Your immediate decisions to be made are:
1. Should your respiratory condition deteriorate, would you provide consent for mechanical ventilation?
2. Would you consent to conscious prone mechanical ventilation provided you meet the criteria?
3. Would you consent to convalescent plasma?

You’re probably going to receive dexamethasone and remdesivir.

I’m curious what others would choose with regard to questions 1-3, and your rationale for making those choices. As soon as you’re admitted in respiratory distress, you are asked these questions.

1. There is a good possibility I would consent to mechanical ventilation since some COVID patients have recovered after a fairly long period of mechanical ventilation.
2. A good possibility I would consent to conscious prone ventilation as there seem to be benefits. I’d get to see what it is like and could later tell others what it is like.
3. Convalescent plasma- Yes, hoping the screening process was done well.

Prior to COVID, I might have not thought I’d do these things if it were caused by some other disease process. Of course we don’t know what we’d do until we are put in a position to have to make these decisions. I asked my hubby two days in a row and he answered differently from the previous day.