Interesting I didn't know that. There are less out of town plates on the road than is usual this time of year, but there less cars in general. But it makes sense, otherwise I think there would have been an explosion of hospitalizations in the Sun City area (2 hospitals plus mine is pretty close to it as well)
For sure - it will just take a necessary interval of time to enroll all the patients, treat them, follow them to discharge, analyze outcomes, write up results. It will happen that much I am confident in. I just hope we get lucky with some of these early drug candidates
Problem with CPAP/BiPAP/ other forms of non-invasive positive pressure ventilation is that it generates a ton of aersol. The device basically spews patient secretions all over the room. Thats why a lot of shops are going straight from high flow nasal cannula to ET intubation. There's also the anecdotal belief that those who get too sick for HFNC are gonna need a tube anyway.
Don't forget this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/u...dartmouth.html
While the title of this piece is that Austria is going to make masks mandatory for public wear the more interesting part to me is that they’re going to do some randomized testing this week.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...gWDtXoRf4M8JpUAustria is also carrying out tests on a representative sample of 2,000 people to get a clearer understanding of how much of the population has been exposed to the virus, Kurz said, adding that Austria was one of the first countries in Europe to do so. The results will be available at the end of the week.
We haven't seen any hostilities. We also sent a system/state - wide note, very early, of avoiding wearing scrubs in public so nobody gets nervous. This policy made things much harder on nursing staff that work in outpatient clinic. Hospital based staff has access to lockers and they normally change anyway. Outpatient clinics don't have lockers but they are still required to wear scrubs, so running an errand or getting groceries on the way home is no difficult.
Doesn't read posts longer than two paragraphs.
Here’s a good article from another ER Doc in New Orleans that I haven’t seen posted. They’re discharging patients with nasal O2 tubes (and take home oxygen) just for try to keep beds open.
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/bre...xcellent-read/
Ken
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