Posted on 04/04/2020 3:57:54 PM PDT by NRx
The night had been particularly tough. Patient after patient had to be intubated and put on a ventilator to breathe. At one point, three “codes” — emergency interventions when someone is on the brink of death — occurred at once.
Dr. Joshua Rosenberg, a critical care doctor, arrived the next morning at the Brooklyn Hospital Center. Within hours, he was racing down the stairwell from the main intensive care unit on the sixth floor to a temporary one on the third, where he passed one of his favorite medical students.
“Shouldn’t you be home?” he asked, registering surprise. Clinical rotations for students had been halted to avoid exposing them to the coronavirus. “My mom’s here,” the student replied.
Dr. Rosenberg, 45, let out an expletive and asked which bed she was in. “I’m rounding there now,” he said and made sure the student had his cellphone number.
Earlier, residents from the I.C.U. had presented their cases to Dr. Rosenberg and others, speaking in shorthand and at auctioneer-like speed. There were so many patients to get through last Monday:
“Admitted for acute hypoxic respiratory failure secondary to likely Covid-19.”
“Admitted for acute hypoxic respiratory failure secondary to confirmed Covid-19.”
“Admitted for acute hypoxic respiratory failure, high suspicion of Covid-19.”
Nearly every person lying in a bed in the new intensive care unit, just as in the main one, was breathing with the help of a mechanical ventilator.
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No, sorry, not buying it. And, yes, it is political.
Sounds very dramatic
Hey
dramatic
democratic
kinda similar
So why aren’t they sending non-WuFlu critical care patients to the Comfort? IIRC, the ship has 80 ICU beds.
God bless these heroes!
Funny no pics of crowded hospitals.
But they have two on the hospital ship!
Are they not using the widely successful drug cocktail the president spoke of?
BREAKING: New York City reports 349 coronavirus deaths since morning update
And yet Andy keeps the ventilators in storage
Girlfriend said 3 people died in last 24 hours, number of cases went from 28 to 56, doubling in same time
This in town of 12,000 in NJ
To bad Cuomo won’t let the doctors get these patient on the medications BEFORE they end up on respiratory care!! The public should sue him into oblivion NOW!!!
Do we know yet how NYC/NYS determine a WuFlu COD? Who qualifies: immediate, underlying, died while presumptive positive, died while positive?
How are they counting the dead?
You mean they may be cooking the numbers? Say it ain’t so, Joe!!
Andy won’t let doctors describe medications that would help them before they end up in the hospital, I wonder if Andy’s brother is on hydrocloroquine!! Would love to find out!!
Describe = prescribe
So would I.
I’m sorry if you are too obtuse to understand the purpose of the article.
Exactly.
You are an ahole.
Fellow citizens are dying now 1000 a day and you think it’s a joke.
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