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Marcus Aurelius3:09p, 7/12/20AG
With the surge of admits we are getting scarce. For me:
Plasma: pretty fair. 1-2 day turn around.
Remdesivir: day to day. Tenuous. Takes ID approval which sometimes means 1-2 days because of ID docs cover multiple hospitals.
Tociluzimab: Ran out today. Takes pulmonary approval. So many stormers I have been pulling the trigger like a M-16 lately. I have a 48 y/o man teetering the drain. Luckily pharmacy borrowing 400mg dose from another hospital.
Dexamethasone: fine
Anticoagulation: fine.
and this was interesting
“Haven’t heard anything about shortages of dexamethasone or heparin. Heparin is the one that I was most concerned about considering it’s randomly been on backorder in the past. Anecdotally, I think the fact that we are proactively anticoagulating most of these people is what has really helped our death rates go down.”