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Im a COVID ICU nurse. Ask me (almost) anything.
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<blockquote data-quote="AndrogenHacker" data-source="post: 185891" data-attributes="member: 39194"><p>Yes and no.</p><p></p><p>If you look at the statistics you're quoting in isolation, you are correct.</p><p></p><p>One major difference that immediately comes to mind from personal experience is resource utilization.</p><p></p><p>Unlike H1N1, once a patient with COVID reaches the point of intubation, it's essentially game over.</p><p></p><p>The keyword of that sentence being "essentially" - meaning some small percentage of patients do eventually make it and can proceed to a step down unit, medical unit, and eventually start the rehabilitation process.</p><p></p><p>The large majority of patients I see inevitably end up on the ventilator and are never able to be liberated. They sit there for sedated and chemically paralyzed (to ensure complete ventilatory compliance) for <strong>weeks or months</strong> on end as the families try to cope with the reality of the situation.</p><p></p><p>I'm not saying its wrong of the families. Hell, I'd probably do the same if it was my wife or one of boys. I'd want to give them every chance.</p><p></p><p>But I can't even being to explain to you the amount of resources these patients are eating up...</p><p></p><p>Some of these people are on 6-12 different iv infusing drips at a time just to maintain life, SLED/CRRT or continuous dialysis that takes special training only a few nurses can do, electrodes, code blue carts, etc. etc.</p><p></p><p>Not to mention man hours...</p><p></p><p>Feel like I'm ranting. You get the point though.</p><p></p><p>I've attached an image I found on Google to give you an idea of the amount of machines and resources these patients utilize for months on end.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]10601[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>And honestly this patient isn't near as complex as it can get.</p><p></p><p>Here's another picture (again found on Google)</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]10602[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AndrogenHacker, post: 185891, member: 39194"] Yes and no. If you look at the statistics you're quoting in isolation, you are correct. One major difference that immediately comes to mind from personal experience is resource utilization. Unlike H1N1, once a patient with COVID reaches the point of intubation, it's essentially game over. The keyword of that sentence being "essentially" - meaning some small percentage of patients do eventually make it and can proceed to a step down unit, medical unit, and eventually start the rehabilitation process. The large majority of patients I see inevitably end up on the ventilator and are never able to be liberated. They sit there for sedated and chemically paralyzed (to ensure complete ventilatory compliance) for [B]weeks or months[/B] on end as the families try to cope with the reality of the situation. I'm not saying its wrong of the families. Hell, I'd probably do the same if it was my wife or one of boys. I'd want to give them every chance. But I can't even being to explain to you the amount of resources these patients are eating up... Some of these people are on 6-12 different iv infusing drips at a time just to maintain life, SLED/CRRT or continuous dialysis that takes special training only a few nurses can do, electrodes, code blue carts, etc. etc. Not to mention man hours... Feel like I'm ranting. You get the point though. I've attached an image I found on Google to give you an idea of the amount of machines and resources these patients utilize for months on end. [ATTACH type="full" alt="neurosurgeryintensivecareunit.jpg"]10601[/ATTACH] And honestly this patient isn't near as complex as it can get. Here's another picture (again found on Google) [ATTACH type="full"]10602[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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