A Brooklyn ICU nurse: “This is a battlefield.” via washingtonpost
, although officials acknowledge it will almost certainly overwhelm their efforts. Before that happens, its leaders allowed The Washington Post access to some of the hospital’s intensive care units and other floorsEighty percent of the approximately 600 adult patients in the hospital Wednesday were infected with the new. That proportion will surely increase until nearly every bed is filled with its victims, officials said.
It is a remarkable perspective. There is little reason for optimism on Tower 8, the surgical ICU floor where just a few weeks ago Perez saw people after strokes, car crashes and major operations. Most of the patients who reach this floor will die, often after lingering for two or even three weeks on ventilators, the desperately needed machines that force oxygen into clogged and inflamed lungs.“Many covid patients pass away,” Perez said. “But you can’t determine that others won’t do well. . . .
“One of the reasons that always attracted me to [infectious disease] is the fact that we cure people. We make people better. We give them medication, and they go home and enjoy their lives.An independent teaching hospital in Brooklyn’s Borough Park neighborhood, Maimonides is named for a 12th-century Jewish philosopher and physician.
Monitors and IV poles have been moved into the hallway. This minimizes the number of times nurses must enter the rooms of infectious patients, limiting their exposure to the virus and preserving the precious masks and gowns in short supply at other hospitals. Long plastic tubes run beneath the doors to the patients, bringing medication and sedatives.
Perez, the nurse, has moved from her home to a nearby apartment. She was afraid she would bring the virus home to her parents, her sister and her brother-in-law, who live with her.
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