What happens to a patient with #COVID19 ? Let me clue you in:
1) So far youngest I've seen is early 20's.
2) The air we breath is only 20% oxygen (did u know that?) The people in covid ICU end up being hooked up to 60 Liters of flow (10 times that little nose cannula in movies)
1) So far youngest I've seen is early 20's.
2) The air we breath is only 20% oxygen (did u know that?) The people in covid ICU end up being hooked up to 60 Liters of flow (10 times that little nose cannula in movies)
3) the oxygen percentage on average is between 50 and 100% oxygen.
4) You can't match these on home oxygen so you're staying in ICU.
5) Despite these incredibly high numbers some end up breathless and are intubated and put on ventilators.
6) You're not awake on a ventilator. You
4) You can't match these on home oxygen so you're staying in ICU.
5) Despite these incredibly high numbers some end up breathless and are intubated and put on ventilators.
6) You're not awake on a ventilator. You
are at the mercy of medical personnel that are busy with you and all the OTHER people that have come in either unvaccinated or immunocompromised and are dying
7) There are many doctors and nurses but the MAIN person running these high flows and ventilators are Respiratory
7) There are many doctors and nurses but the MAIN person running these high flows and ventilators are Respiratory
Therapists. There is typically ONE of them for every 5 ventilator patients (most times more) and every other patient in ICU with Respiratory conditions
8) During the peak of covid, I was one of TWO RT's for 40-50 covid patients in an extended Covid ICU
9) #GetVaccinated PLEASE
8) During the peak of covid, I was one of TWO RT's for 40-50 covid patients in an extended Covid ICU
9) #GetVaccinated PLEASE
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