Open AccessMy First encounter with a Corona patient
Author(s) -
S. Shakir Hasan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
anaesthesia, pain and intensive care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.17
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2220-5799
pISSN - 1607-8322
DOI - 10.35975/apic.v24i1.1240
Subject(s) - covid-19 , medicine , pandemic , intubation , psychological intervention , intensive care medicine , ventilation (architecture) , corona (planetary geology) , medical emergency , nursing , anesthesia , disease , engineering , infectious disease (medical specialty) , mechanical engineering , physics , pathology , virology , astrobiology , outbreak , venus
Past few weeks have been a challenging time for all the health care workers, especially those who are front liners and directly involved in the management of Corona patient during this pandemic time. As this is a new experience for all of us, hence one can feel the fear and uncertainty in the management of these patients.
As intensive care physicians, what we are offering in our hospital at present is to review these patients on the Covid ward in a view to assess them for a need of ventilatory requirement. If they are in need of invasive ventilation then they are brought to a specific area in theatre for intubation and ventilation with all the necessary precautions and preparations. These patients are not currently offered any of the non invasive interventions which are normally offered to non-covid patients such as Nasal high flow oxygen, CPAP or BIPAP as these can be aerosol generating.