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Brian Gehlbach ☕️ 🩺 🎹 Profile picture
Brian Gehlbach ☕️ 🩺 🎹
@BrianGehlbach
Pulm/CC doc | Research: SUDEP, ICU sleep| Physio, MedEd | Mann Elementary Spelling Bee champ, parent division| Opinions mine
Nov 13, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Consequences of surging hospital admissions across the #midwest

1) Busy rural ER docs calling 6,7,8 hospitals to try to find a bed for a sick patient in need of tertiary care. And failing.

2) Repurposing existing beds to accommodate #COVID19 patients. 1/8 3) Rescheduling ever more urgent surgeries--heart surgery, cancer surgery, spine surgery--to some future date...a "less busy" date that is hard to see right now.

4) Staffing these new #COVID units, in some cases with non-ICU practitioners. 2/8