Patient presentation is varied. Patients are coming in hypoxic (even 75%) without dyspnea. I have seen Covid patients present with encephalopathy, renal failure from dehydration, DKA. I have seen the bilateral interstitial pneumonia on the xray of the asymptomatic shoulder dislocation or on the CT’s of the (respiratory) asymptomatic polytrauma patient. Essentially if they are in my ER, they have it.
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So everybody who comes into his ER has COVID-19. That’s a bit beyond belief.
“So everybody who comes into his ER has COVID-19. That’s a bit beyond belief.”
I think he means at present, yes,
“Somehow this ***** has told all other disease processes to get out of town.”
I spent Sunday in a large ER in Hartford. About six hours.
The place was a ghost town. The normal ER patients were staying away. People were not driving, so little trauma. No shootings. No families. No noise.
It was the creepiest thing I’ve felt in a long time.
I asked where the Covid people were. The only ones coming in were intubated,tested, and sent upstairs. They had a no visitor policy, and an external testing site.