Want to hear what Aus Doctors who run our Covid wards are gagged from saying ?
ICU patients are spilling over into ED and onto the general wards. Patients accepted by ICU are being managed with CPAP initiation on the wards with a pH of 6.5 and pCO2 of 100 plus creatinine of 330.
ICU patients are spilling over into ED and onto the general wards. Patients accepted by ICU are being managed with CPAP initiation on the wards with a pH of 6.5 and pCO2 of 100 plus creatinine of 330.
Overnight had a COVID patient experience syncope in the waiting room due to a saddle embolus. Picked up another one with a creatinine of +600 just from vomiting/volume loss alone (baseline of 50 in September) causing hypovolaemic shock. But I guess death is "mild"
That was this morning
Lay translation:
https://twitter.com/NjbBari3/status/1482503694751252483?s=20
It is upsetting that people do not want to hear what is going on in some of our hospitals this weekend. An inconvenient truth that does not fit the spin narrative is nonetheless what happened.
The physician who directly relayed this to me deserves their colleagues support.
The physician who directly relayed this to me deserves their colleagues support.
As a lawyer I understand the importance of contemporaneous notes as evidence. This event is now on public record & I am able to testify to what I was directly told. I can swear that the distress / moral injury of the physician was evident on recalling the event #RoyalCommission
Here is a good place for HCW to log their experiences. Time and date stamps matter. Fill in your details. Tick anonymous if you don’t want your details published. There is a ‘contact us’ link if you wish to chat first. Confidentiality assured.
healthcareworkersaustralia.com/share-your-sto…
healthcareworkersaustralia.com/share-your-sto…
Additionally I have spoken this morning to an experienced anaesthetist who assured me “based on experience and literature that a venous gas of 6.5 is possible in someone critically ill not able to obtain ICU treatment and deteriorating (but still alive)“
They also said “ while s/he receives little thanks and no job security while filling in during the crisis, it is particularly demoralizing for people to not believe a crisis is even occurring”
“Which s/he believes they will no doubt be repeating in the inevitable Royal Commission where they will be able to discuss this with immunity”
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