Report from the front lines:
My daughter is a nurse in the pediatric ICU at a major hospital in Baltimore (I work for the same hospital). They converted half of the PICU into a COVID ICU for adult patients to help with the load, and she has been taking care of adult COVID patients for the last several shifts. She says the bit about these patients having a lot of blood clots is very real. Their blood is very viscous. She says they’ve never seen anything like it. IVs and other blood processing equipment (e.g., ECMO) are clogging at very high rates.
For the good news, the need to use the PICU for adult patients is declining, and they’re planning on moving them back to adult floors.
Not good. Not good at all. We keep hearing there are more and more complications from this virus.
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Dr from Texags has had good luck with the genetech drug stopping the cytokine storm and thinks that is part of the answer...
but that is overall...not specific to the clogging. Scary that it is clogging ECMO machines
Bess Kalb @bessbell He had a patient who needed 8 blood transfusions in a morning even though he wasn’t bleeding. The coronavirus was just eating his red blood cells faster than his bone marrow could make them. It’s mystifying and brutal.
Thank you for letting us know what is going on. I have heard the same from a friend
That is horrible about the blood clotting.
What effect do ventilators have on viscous blood?
Why are people dying from being ventilated?