As you all know my wife is a Pulmonologist/Critical Care Physician here in Bloomington Indiana, I wanted to post things that she has experienced in regards to COVID-19 from daily dealing with this killer virus, so here goes things she has found. One Caveat this in no way says its valid with all cases but what she has seen in a limited case volume and what she has found from colleagues.
1: They have had 27 cases come into the unit with COVID-19 like symptoms and still unable to get most tested or their results in a reasonable time.
2: PPE is very short statewide here in Indiana, having to use masks for multiple days on end
3: Her hospital is using the HCQ Protocol on the demand of IU Board of Health, so far no patient after taking the entire course has came off the vent.
4: Three of her colleagues, one at Emory medical systems in Atlanta, one at St Lukes in Chicago, and final one at Methodist Hospital in Memphis all Infectious Disease Physicians, all have said that the only help they have seen with both hydroxychloroquine and HCQ/azithromycin is in early distribution of the drug.
5: The biggest problem they are facing in everyone of there patients is the Fever they have seen in everyone of them that has a bad outcome that the fever starts spiking to a dangerous level and then they are gone with 24 hours.
6: Like some other posters on here are putting everyone that comes in on anti-coagulants seems to be helpful.
7: They are trying to get into a efficacy trial for a anti-parasitic drug called Ivermectin which from a study in Australia has show huge promise in vitro.
8: For those that think this only effects the old and those with pre-existing conditions, this week has been bad for her she had to pronounce on a 29 year old who came in with fever and coughs was told to go home and self isolate, 48 hours later he was back in the hospital this time in the ICU and on a vent and then 24 hours later she had to tell his family via phone there son didn't make it. If that wasn't bad enough the same night she had to make comfort measures on a 34 year old mother of 4, whose only comorbidity was she was obese per BMI standards.
9: There is this scary phenomenon with this virus that has been seen throughout the world, patients are recovering in the ICU, discharged and then dying of Sudden Cardiac Death Syndrome and to the point they are starting to give ECO's to patients before they are discharged
So every be safe and stay home if you can and look forward to seeing you all on the backside of this at the Big House.. GO BLUE!!!!
1: They have had 27 cases come into the unit with COVID-19 like symptoms and still unable to get most tested or their results in a reasonable time.
2: PPE is very short statewide here in Indiana, having to use masks for multiple days on end
3: Her hospital is using the HCQ Protocol on the demand of IU Board of Health, so far no patient after taking the entire course has came off the vent.
4: Three of her colleagues, one at Emory medical systems in Atlanta, one at St Lukes in Chicago, and final one at Methodist Hospital in Memphis all Infectious Disease Physicians, all have said that the only help they have seen with both hydroxychloroquine and HCQ/azithromycin is in early distribution of the drug.
5: The biggest problem they are facing in everyone of there patients is the Fever they have seen in everyone of them that has a bad outcome that the fever starts spiking to a dangerous level and then they are gone with 24 hours.
6: Like some other posters on here are putting everyone that comes in on anti-coagulants seems to be helpful.
7: They are trying to get into a efficacy trial for a anti-parasitic drug called Ivermectin which from a study in Australia has show huge promise in vitro.
8: For those that think this only effects the old and those with pre-existing conditions, this week has been bad for her she had to pronounce on a 29 year old who came in with fever and coughs was told to go home and self isolate, 48 hours later he was back in the hospital this time in the ICU and on a vent and then 24 hours later she had to tell his family via phone there son didn't make it. If that wasn't bad enough the same night she had to make comfort measures on a 34 year old mother of 4, whose only comorbidity was she was obese per BMI standards.
9: There is this scary phenomenon with this virus that has been seen throughout the world, patients are recovering in the ICU, discharged and then dying of Sudden Cardiac Death Syndrome and to the point they are starting to give ECO's to patients before they are discharged
So every be safe and stay home if you can and look forward to seeing you all on the backside of this at the Big House.. GO BLUE!!!!
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