There were reports that there is a shortage of ICU nurses. Thankfully we seem to be surviving without them.Been reading they are full of all the latest equipment but have hardly any patients. Talk of using them to treat the people who have had operations cancelled due to coronavirus. Are they an unnecessary expense ?
There were reports that there is a shortage of ICU nurses. Thankfully we seem to be surviving without them.
We're being gaslit on a daily basis by the same people who lied their way to Brexit and then lied their way to a parliamentary majority.
Been reading they are full of all the latest equipment but have hardly any patients. Talk of using them to treat the people who have had operations cancelled due to coronavirus. Are they an unnecessary expense ?
I know hundreds of people are dying each day but is the fact these Nightingale Hospitals are hardly needed show this hasn't been as bad as some feared ?
Many doctors around the world are using ventilation as a last resort now arent they? Thought they were using the machines that force oxygen in instead?To counter the above and to get a total understanding, how many hospitals do not have enough ventilators currently?
James cook for examples has had 2 wards designated that it hasn’t even had to use. Middlesbrough were told is a hotspot
Agree with a large part of that Alan, and the last thing I am is a Tory.We would all do many things differently with the benefit of 20-20 vision hindsight. This pandemic is a once in a century event for which there is no precedent but perhaps better planning, earlier, may have saved some of the 20,000+ tragic lives already lost. It really is a heinous disease and the government and it's ministers actions will be damned if they do and damned if they don't by amateur armchair epidemiologists
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To counter the above and to get a total understanding, how many hospitals do not have enough ventilators currently?
James cook for examples has had 2 wards designated that it hasn’t even had to use. Middlesbrough were told is a hotspot
We would all do many things differently with the benefit of 20-20 vision hindsight. This pandemic is a once in a century event for which there is no precedent but perhaps better planning, earlier, may have saved some of the 20,000+ tragic lives already lost. It really is a heinous disease and the government and it's ministers actions will be damned if they do and damned if they don't by amateur armchair epidemiologists
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Wards 7 and 8 have been deep cleaned this week and 'downgraded from 'an ICU status.Which 2 COVID wards weren’t used Gaz, wife’s best friend is in charge of one of the 4 Covid ICU wards at JCUH and they’re all still relatively busy but flattening out after the peak around 2 weeks ago ? However she did say that they couldn’t work at full capacity now anyway as there aren’t enough drugs needed to incapacitate the lungs to fit intrusive ventilation, which is becoming a cause for concern or was on Thursday when she last spoke to my Mrs.
Agree, if they aren’t being used, it’s a contradiction to press ahead with opening up more unless there is a plan to move future virus cases away from the main hospitals, but if there is why not say that? And on this business of it being a once in a lifetime event nobody could have predicted blah, blah, yes it is but the Government can look sensible and measured. I thought a few weeks back that it was some Dominic Cummings/Boris Johnson plan to deliberately look desperate, reactive and panicked in the face of an unstoppable enemy but I’ve realised since it’s because they really do not have a clue what they are doing. The NHS, businesses and the general public are leading on all fronts, the Government is floundering.Whilst I agree with much of what you say and obviously mistakes will be made there does need to be accountancy for what has happened, what went right and what went wrong, we had a two week head start on Italy on this pandemic and whilst it was impossible to predict the scale of the infection, knowing your medical staffing capacity was something, I would have though, would be a high priority in any action plan.
What I don’t understand is why, if they are not needed, we are continuing down this route, with plans to open another 3 in Bristol, Exeter and Washington, it seems counterintuitive given the imminent easing in lockdown measures.
Which 2 COVID wards weren’t used Gaz, wife’s best friend is in charge of one of the 4 Covid ICU wards at JCUH and they’re all still relatively busy but flattening out after the peak around 2 weeks ago ? However she did say that they couldn’t work at full capacity now anyway as there aren’t enough drugs needed to incapacitate the lungs to fit intrusive ventilation, which is becoming a cause for concern or was on Thursday when she last spoke to my Mrs.
I would agree with that Alan, I can see where posters are coming from & seeing posts above is on a frightening scaleWe would all do many things differently with the benefit of 20-20 vision hindsight. This pandemic is a once in a century event for which there is no precedent but perhaps better planning, earlier, may have saved some of the 20,000+ tragic lives already lost. It really is a heinous disease and the government and it's ministers actions will be damned if they do and damned if they don't by amateur armchair epidemiologists
#UTB