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This is a 20 minute interview with an ICU doctor in Wales. He talks about the pressures on intensive care, about the reduction in capacity and how they'll have
by DanBC 7y ago
This is a 20 minute interview with an ICU doctor in Wales.
He talks about the pressures on intensive care, about the reduction in capacity and how they'll have to overflow to other areas quite soon; he talks about the difference in intensive care for covid-19 patients and other patients (all staff are in full PPE all the time, which isn't normal, and the covid-19 patients in ICU are more ill than other patients in ICU); he talks about good morale in the circumstance.
He also talks about the unexpected impact on younger patients -- all their ICU patients are in their 50s or younger, and do not have comormid conditions.
He speaks about the distress of people not being able to have visitors, and of having to think about how family members can be with their loved ones as those people die.
He talks about the mechanism of death, which includes respiratory failure, multi-organ failure, but he says the main cause is myocarditis.
He speaks about his experience of having and recovering from covid-19.
It's a great interview and well worth watching.
The UK went into covid-19 with fewer doctors, nurses, beds, ICU beds, per 100,000 population than most other EU countries.