> Reading about it in the news, I knew it was going to be bad, but we deal with the flu every year so I was thinking: Well, it’s probably not that much worse than the flu. But seeing patients with COVID-19 completely changed my perspective, and it’s a lot more frightening.
This is knocking out what should be perfectly fit, healthy people.
> I’m seeing people who look relatively healthy with a minimal health history, and they are completely wiped out, like they’ve been hit by a truck. This is knocking out what should be perfectly fit, healthy people. Patients will be on minimal support, on a little bit of oxygen, and then all of a sudden, they go into complete respiratory arrest, shut down and can’t breathe at all.
They suddenly become unresponsive or go into respiratory failure.
Respiratory Therapist here: you're all fucked
> We have an observation unit in the hospital, and we have been admitting patients that had tested positive or are presumptive positive — these are patients that had been in contact with people who were positive. We go and check vitals on patients every four hours, and some are on a continuous cardiac monitor, so we see that their heart rate has a sudden increase or decrease, or someone goes in and sees that the patient is struggling to breathe or is unresponsive. That seems to be what happens to a lot of these patients: They suddenly become unresponsive or go into respiratory failure.
The lung is filled with so much fluid, displacing where the air would normally be.
> It’s called acute respiratory distress syndrome, ARDS. That means the lungs are filled with fluid. And it’s notable for the way the X-ray looks: The entire lung is basically whited out from fluid. Patients with ARDS are extremely difficult to oxygenate. It has a really high mortality rate, about 40%. The way to manage it is to put a patient on a ventilator. The additional pressure helps the oxygen go into the bloodstream.
> Normally, ARDS is something that happens over time as the lungs get more and more inflamed. But with this virus, it seems like it happens overnight. When you’re healthy, your lung is made up of little balloons. Like a tree is made out of a bunch of little leaves, the lung is made of little air sacs that are called the alveoli. When you breathe in, all of those little air sacs inflate, and they have capillaries in the walls, little blood vessels. The oxygen gets from the air in the lung into the blood so it can be carried around the body.
> Typically with ARDS, the lungs become inflamed. It’s like inflammation anywhere: If you have a burn on your arm, the skin around it turns red from additional blood flow. The body is sending it additional nutrients to heal. The problem is, when that happens in your lungs, fluid and extra blood starts going to the lungs. Viruses can injure cells in the walls of the alveoli, so the fluid leaks into the alveoli. A telltale sign of ARDS in an X-ray is what’s called ‘ground glass opacity,’ like an old-fashioned ground glass privacy window in a shower. And lungs look that way because fluid is white on an X-ray, so the lung looks like white ground glass, or sometimes pure white, because the lung is filled with so much fluid, displacing where the air would normally be.
It first struck me how different it was when I saw my first coronavirus patient go bad. I was like, Holy shit, this is not the flu. Watching this relatively young guy, gasping for air, pink frothy secretions coming out of his tube and out of his mouth. The ventilator should have been doing the work of breathing but he was still gasping for air, moving his mouth, moving his body, struggling. We had to restrain him. With all the coronavirus patients, we’ve had to restrain them. They really hyperventilate, really struggle to breathe. When you’re in that mindstate of struggling to breathe and delirious with fever, you don’t know when someone is trying to help you, so you’ll try to rip the breathing tube out because you feel it is choking you, but you are drowning.
When someone has an infection, I’m used to seeing the normal colors you’d associate with it: greens and yellows. The coronavirus patients with ARDS have been having a lot of secretions that are actually pink because they’re filled with blood cells that are leaking into their airways. They are essentially drowning in their own blood and fluids because their lungs are so full. So we’re constantly having to suction out the secretions every time we go into their rooms.
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tl;dr
you're all gonna drown in your own blood
butt
Fuck you retarded copypasta faggot. It's literally a nothingburger
sage
i'm going to choke you with my cock
>It's literally a nothingburger
coworkers have to scrub down before going home
...
*sniffffffff*
I want to inhale that butt
I agree. Basically when this is all done, in the same time period, more people would have died from flu sickness than coronachan.
Source: dude trust me
Holy fucking god, this is now a big booty thread - God bless this degenerate obsession with big posteriors because that ass is T H I C C
>No source
Fuck off faggot.
*deep inhale*
women that look like this should be banned from doing this work. holy hell.
i would use her ass as a gas mask
and my fucking idiot sister still goes out every fucking day and expects me to save her when things get bad.
>>No source
>Source:
reeee..... i need MSM to tell me something, mommy!
(zoomie NEETs have no concept that anons are skilled working members in the medical industry with firsthand experience)
>relatively young
so 40
Millions will die of starvation and suicide due to the collapsing economy. It's all their (((plan))). Mark my words
sorry cpuldnt read was fapping
>Dude just trust me lmao
Not today fag.
OP needs to post his work badge with his name blurred out and a time stamp. Why are you defending LARPs?
>grocery stores well stocked
>easily able to get fresh food & essentials in one of the worst states
>people still buying and still think the virus is stupid
>memes made people take nothing seriously
>trade deals are being made
>MILLIONS WILL STARVE WHEN ECONOMY SINKS
sounds good keep us posted bro! and we believe you : )
copypasta faggot I hope you drown in your own bidet fluid
turning 40, it was nice knowing you guys!
Don't think you're going to escape DOTR. At least put some effort into your larp. In all fields.
Lol retard
> I work 12-hour shifts. Right now, we are running about four times the number of ventilators than we normally have going. We have such a large volume of patients, but it’s really hard to find enough people to fill all the shifts. The caregiver-to-patient ratio has gone down, and you can’t spend as much time with each patient, you can’t adjust the vent settings as aggressively because you’re not going into the room as often. And we’re also trying to avoid going into the room as much as possible to reduce infection risk of staff and to conserve personal protective equipment
Don't forget to do an image search anons
we are trying to wean down the settings on the ventilator as much as possible, because you don’t want someone to be on the ventilator longer than they need to be. Your risk of mortality increases every day that you spend on a ventilator. The high pressures from high vent settings is pushing air into the lung and can overinflate those little balloons. They can pop. It can destroy the alveoli. Even if you survive ARDS, although some damage can heal, it can also do long-lasting damage to the lungs. They can get filled up with scar tissue. ARDS can lead to cognitive decline. Some people’s muscles waste away, and it takes them a long time to recover once they come off the ventilator.
There is a very real possibility that we might run out of ICU beds and at that point I don’t know what happens if patients get sick and need to be intubated and put on a ventilator. Is that person going to die because we don’t have the equipment to keep them alive? What if it goes on for months and dozens of people die because we don’t have the ventilators?
I was hacking up thick mucus with pink dots in it. Felt like I was dying. Hospital sent me home, called me a big baby. This was early February. I got over it because I chain smoke and aint chinese. Ive been going around as an asymptomatic carrier ever since, for going on 2 months now.Lmao.
Enjoy your airborne aids.
Try harder kike
Woah a chainsmoker struggling with his lungs no way
Kys
this seething LEAF
raging over images on a Hiberian Horticulture Image Board dedicated to Crom.
>I chain smoke
that's the only plus side to this
> smokers and weedbros
will all assuredly die
That small head fits right up her fat ass.
where is this info coming from?
God i hate white women
White male here, i only bang black girls
>where is this info coming from?
>Respiratory Therapist here
>imagining how good pussy must smell at 200x the strength of the human nose
>i only bang black girls
speaking of pandemic infections....
You obese sumbitches don't stand a chance.
>not rates
>gross cases
Yikes. Blacks and STIs is the same issue as blacks and crime.
>12% of the population
>half the total incidents
It's already surpassed daily flu deaths and were nowhere near the peak. Where do you cope faggots even come from?
This is a larp. You're not a healthcare worker, you don't work 12 hour shifts, they don't even say they work "12 hour shifts". There are 289,000 patients in the entire world, scientists have data on who it effects. All you did was take pneumonia symptoms and try to make it sound scary. Young people need to be quarantined because they could stand next to 60 year old boomer for 2 minutes barely coughing or feeling anything and give the boomer the virus through asymptotic transmission.
> I worked a long stretch of days last week, and I watched it go from this novelty to a serious issue. We had one or two patients at our hospital, and then five to 10 patients, and then 20 patients. Every day, the intensity kept ratcheting up. More patients, and the patients themselves are starting to get sicker and sicker. When it first started, we all had tons of equipment, tons of supplies, and as we started getting more patients, we started to run out. They had to ration supplies. At first we were trying to use one mask per patient. Then it was just: You get one mask for positive patients, another mask for everyone else. And now it’s just: You get one mask.
you're such a detestable cunt
lern 2 archive, faggot
i've noticed that nurses over exaggerate everything and they're dramatic as fuck. i think it comes from "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" because they know just enough to get some low level healthcare position but they're not real doctors (even though they pretend to be).
That coupled with the fact that lots of lower class women are getting these jobs so they have lived their whole life surrounded by complete idiots and now that they have a little something going for them they get inflated egos and believe it becomes their duty to mommy everyone around them.
Anyways. Nurses are melodramatic idiots. Don't take anything they have to say too seriously.
You don't have to archive propublica you wannabe oldfag. There are no ads.
Yeah bro and I'm an ER doctor. It totally makes your dick bigger, I didn't believe it at first but when I saw a coronavirus go bad that first time, I looked under the sheets and his cock was at least triple it's regular size!
People won't be able to afford food anymore retard
I have some novel ideas about respiratory therapy
Can't you just puncture their lung and drain it?