Is that what they did with Trump? Did nothing.....? Doc should of tested for Covid, not just send her home. Trump didn't go to hospital and get treatments? Are you sure your a doc? If your post wasn't for me I apologize. Not sure who your talking to. Otherwise your just as bad as the doc that never tested and start her on treatments.
Doc, the one who took offense to your response earlier mentioned they sent his Aunt home with double pneumonia instead of admitting her. Is that standard procedure? I've had pneumonia, and I was happy to be admitted and put on IV. It hit me fast and hard, and I don't know that I would have made it had I not been admitted. Just curious. Maybe I missed something too.
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Question for Doc,
I’ve been hearing reports of ICUs filling up and some states are out of beds. Would it be reasonable to assume these must all be ventilator patients? If there’s not much that can be done but let the virus run it’s course, why would hospitalizations be going up so much? Just wondering if there are other factors at play this time of year or if I’m missing something.
Because some of our employers require it to return to work.
Doc,
Are you still practicing, thought I saw somewhere you were retiring.... If you are, what is the hospital capacity like there related to the facility and not staffing? In Lake County everyone was on bypass for about the last week, but the buildings were a ghost town and ER was mildly busy. It was just weird to see as usually a bypass is a full ER and waiting.
Oldest nephew had it (22, Div. III football player) last month for 18 hours. He stood in shower until fever broke and then slept all day.
He was heartbroken that he could not eat or lift for an entire day. He was confined to his dorm room and the doc came to see him. He had to take an EKG test after doc saw him but everything is fine.
... as Hough said, most COVID is not getting on a ventilator. High flow nasal cannula is as high as they like to go if possible. It's a big cannula that can blow 60 liters of flow your way, with up to 100% oxygen. It creates almost a CPAP system that keeps your lungs open and you don't have to work hard to breathe, also constantly washes out the exhaled air so new air is always there, increasing gas exchange
...I would love to retire. I'm jaded and hate what government and insurance companies have done to the delivery of medicine. Also frustrated with the entitlement mentality of some of our patients. But alas, I'm a long way from retirement. Our ICU is not full, but we are holding patients for med-surg beds. If the ICUs become full again they will start cancelling elective cardiac and other big surgeries that will require post-op ICU stays. We haven't done that yet and no current plans.
Yes, buy a pulse oximeter. If you're dropping to 90 or below or have significant shortness of breath, or feeling very dehydrated, hit the ER. If no one is sick in your family loan it to someone who does have a sick person. What's interesting is in March/April we rarely saw vomiting and headaches with COVID. Now many people have those complaints with it.
After loosing smell and taste on November 13th, today at lunch my wife got her taste back!
I would love to retire. I'm jaded and hate what government and insurance companies have done to the delivery of medicine. Also frustrated with the entitlement mentality of some of our patients. But alas, I'm a long way from retirement. Our ICU is not full, but we are holding patients for med-surg beds. If the ICUs become full again they will start cancelling elective cardiac and other big surgeries that will require post-op ICU stays. We haven't done that yet and no current plans.
Yes, buy a pulse oximeter. If you're dropping to 90 or below or have significant shortness of breath, or feeling very dehydrated, hit the ER. If no one is sick in your family loan it to someone who does have a sick person. What's interesting is in March/April we rarely saw vomiting and headaches with COVID. Now many people have those complaints with it.
good luck hough!
I talked to a doc last night at work. his daughter is at IU bloomington. she has been tested NINETEEN TIMES by the "random" testing process this semester
absurd
side note: you can buy oxygen concentrators on Amazon. not sure if FDA certified or not. I would not rely on that to keep me out of a hospital entirely. buyer beware
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=oxygen+c...prefix=oxygen+concen&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-a-p_2_13
Second hand- a friend of mine is in the hospital with COVID. He is about 50-51. I don't know much about his medical history, but he is obese (not enough is made out of this as a complicating factor). He was supposed to get convalescent plasma and some "massive" (his word) steroids today. Looking for an update tonight.