NEW YORK
New York hospital sends some ‘borderline’ COVID-19 patients home with oxygen monitors
Since last week, more than 200 people with confirmed or suspected COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the virus, have been sent home with a pulse oximeter to track their oxygen levels. A doctor or nurse practitioner follows up with them via video conference....
Some of the NewYork-Presbyterian patients are also being sent home with a 30lb (14 kg) portable oxygen concentrating machine....
The patient is asked to log their oximeter readings to share with a doctor or nurse practitioner at 12-hour and 24-hour consultations...
No patient in the program is known to have died at home as of Wednesday, but about 15 percent were asked to return to hospital to be admitted...
That plan sounds like it’s working well.
Bad idea.