Pulmonary edema

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Liquid in the lungs, may cause respiratory failure.

Pulmonary edema (PE), also known as pulmonary congestion, is liquid accumulation in the tissue and air spaces of the lungs.[1] It leads to impaired gas exchange and may cause respiratory failure. It is due to either failure of the left ventricle of the heart to remove blood adequately from the pulmonary circulation (cardiogenic pulmonary edema), or an injury to the lung tissue or blood vessels of the lung (non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema).[2]

Treatment is focused on three aspects: firstly improving respiratory function, secondly, treating the underlying cause, and thirdly avoiding further damage to the lung. Pulmonary edema, especially when sudden (acute), can lead to respiratory failure or cardiac arrest due to hypoxia. It is a cardinal feature of congestive heart failure.

Covid-19

Full article: COVID-19/Euthanasia

During Covid-19, drugs causing pulmonary edema were used to increase the death numbers, particularly the drug Remdesivir.


People did not die of Covid-19, Dr. Bryan Ardis said, they died from remdesivir. Remdesivir has been proven to cause kidney failure which leads to pulmonary edema. Officials are calling this secondary pneumonia from Covid, said Dr. Ardis, “no it wasn’t, they are shutting down everybody’s kidneys with remdesivir, causing their lungs to fill with fluid, and they are drowning them to death.
They are using remdesivir the same way that they used gas chambers to destroy people in Germany. This is how they’re doing it, and perpetuating those deaths, using a drug in hospitals,” said Dr. Ardis[3]

Also mechanical ventilators can cause pulmonary edema[4], especially if the staff is insufficiently trained in the procedure.


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References

  1. Dorland's illustrated medical dictionary (32nd ed.). Saunders/Elsevier. p. 593. ISBN 9781416062578
  2. Ware LB, Matthay MA (December 2005). "Clinical practice. Acute pulmonary edema". N. Engl. J. Med. 353 (26): 2788–96. doi:10.1056/NEJMcp052699. PMID 16382065
  3. https://dailyexpose.uk/2021/09/02/remdesivir-causes-renal-failure-hospital-protocols-are-killing-people/
  4. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7735616/