Open AccessClinical Care of COVID-19 Patients in a Front-line ICU
Author(s) -
Robert Raschke,
Tyler Glenn,
Kim Josen
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
southwest journal of pulmonary and critical care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2160-6773
DOI - 10.13175/swjpcc070-20
Subject(s) - covid-19 , rounding , medicine , intensive care unit , pneumonia , triage , emergency medicine , asymptomatic , front line , medical emergency , intensive care medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , computer science , disease , political science , law , operating system
No abstract available. Article truncated after 150 words. These are some clinical observations made after over the past 10 months, working in a busy COVID-19 ICU unit in Scottsdale, AZ. The opinions expressed here are those of the private practice authors. Overview of triage and rounding on large numbers of COVID-19 patients in the ICU service. Our approach to bedside care of our ICU service has required abbreviation for the sake of efficiency in the face of more than a doubling of our census. Our approach to rounding is opinion-based. We’ve been forced to cut corners where we can in order to survive. Our hospital uses the Abbott ID-Now® rapid point-of -are test for screening all COVID-19-asymptomatic patients admitted to our hospital, but due to its low sensitivity in hospitalized patients (1). We do not trust it to rule-out COVID-19 in patients with pneumonia being admitted to the ICU and also order an in-house PCR for such patients …