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Clinical Care of COVID-19 Patients in a Front-line ICU

Author(s) -

Robert Raschke,

Tyler J. 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 , medical emergency , intensive care medicine , computer science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , 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 …

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