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Gosh its all got very aggressive in here hasn't it? I think things get a bit tricky when you try to look at things at a national level. Most individuals have a slice of their view but its hard to comprehend things nationally. The ICNARC data (ICU deaths) is probably the most interesting/relevant thing as it highlights the groups who die in ICU (i.e. the generally slightly fitter ones who probably wouldn't necessarily have coped with say, the average flu). There is also a huge variation between the north and south of the country. March and April I was super busy in the south, but from June to October was actually settling. There's further variation between the medics and the ITUs. I will say that while things are picking up where I'm at currently,we're not bursting at the seams. The biggest issue is bed spacing. Our ITU hasn't grown in size which meant that splitting things between a red area and amber area is really hard. New patients generally need to go into a side room (at least until they get a positive/negative covid swab...) as you can't risk a non covid going to the covid zone or indeed the inverse. We have 4 side rooms, which are also needed for infective/immunocompromised patients so in one busy shift you run out of side rooms. Edit: I will also agree that the information/advice from on high is confused and muddled. I think many of us in hospitals take issue with the rules and whilst they often have some form of science base, there is rarely any actual evidence (unprecedented times and all that wot wot). For example the bloody plastic pinnies (not the surgical gowns) we all wear clearly do nothing. Very strong evidence full PPE is good, all the slightly lower measures (for unknown covid status) have no evidence. Unfortunately things really do begin to fall apart if we all do our own thing/what we want, so I follow orders. Edited by Velocityraptor at 19:21:51 29-11-2020 |
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