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Research led by a team of investigators at University of Galway has revealed that frailty has a greater impact than age on the outcomes of patients being weaned off invasive mechanical ventilation, required by patients with various forms of respiratory failure.

Journalist Michael McHale writing in the November 4 issue of the Irish Medical Times reviewed Brian Lynch’s book, Oxygenation is the Solution. Deaths from Covid-19 and Global Legal Insights for Medical Practice: An Insider’s Perspective.

Critically-ill Covid-19 patients are less likely to die or to require invasive ventilation if lying prone on their stomachs while receiving oxygen, a global research project sponsored by NUI Galway has found.

A Galway-based solicitor is calling on the Government to intervene and make provision so that Galway University Hospital immediately becomes Ireland’s centre for Covid using hyperbaric oxygenation.