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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsProPublica: "Holy Shit, this is not the flu!" Grim report from New Orleans respiratory therapist.
https://www.propublica.org/article/a-medical-worker-describes--terrifying-lung-failure-from-covid19-even-in-his-young-patientsReading 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, its probably not that much worse than the flu. But seeing patients with COVID-19 completely changed my perspective, and its a lot more frightening.
This is knocking out what should be perfectly fit, healthy people.
I have patients in their early 40s and, yeah, I was kind of shocked. Im seeing people who look relatively healthy with a minimal health history, and they are completely wiped out, like theyve 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 cant breathe at all.
They suddenly become unresponsive or go into respiratory failure.
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.
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ProPublica: "Holy Shit, this is not the flu!" Grim report from New Orleans respiratory therapist. (Original Post)
blitzen
Mar 2020
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Pachamama
(16,887 posts)1. "Pink frothy secretion coming out of the tube....."
....liquified lungs....
SDANation
(419 posts)3. Or fluid overload.
Could be heart failure related
captain queeg
(10,208 posts)2. I have a neighbor that keeps saying "it's just the flu!"
maryellen99
(3,789 posts)4. I'm scared s*****s. :(
blitzen
(4,572 posts)5. The more of us scared right now, the better, I think. n/t
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)6. Usually I prescribe to the philosophy of not living in fear - this time though, fear may save us
Fear of this and staying the fuck home and not going out will save you and others lives.
Fear in this case is good
blitzen
(4,572 posts)7. I agree 100%. n/t
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)8. K&R