Posted on 03/30/2020 9:18:24 AM PDT by Bogle
VANITY An anti-Trump person just told me that hospitals are now sending the oldest patients with coronovirus home from the hospital. I know this is bound to be fake (she does watch CNN). I've done research--does anyone have ANY idea what she might be referring to? It might be futile--but I want to set the record straight as much as I can to as many people as I can.
Dr. Zelenko cured a 101 year old with his treatment.
Sorry, French test had 101-yr old.
At the primary care clinic where I work we are telling people who call in with fever and respiratory symptoms to self-quarantine AT HOME unless they have breathing difficulties. Then they are advised to go to the local ER.
They can’t get the chloroquine-azythromycin treatment?
I agree.
This is not just Covid-19 cases. I am an independent contractor medical transcriptionist. I edit/transcribe dictations for two level-1 trauma center hospitals, one in Suffolk County, NY and one in Boston, MA. I can tell you doctors are having to cut corners on patient care the non-Covid cases.
As of last week they stopped doing elective surgeries and so now my work volume has been cut down three quarters of what it used to be. The hospitals are empty because they are waiting for this huge wave of Covid-19 patients. What is scary is that this compromises care for patients with other medical problems. Doctors are doing visits over the phone instead of having the patient come in for an exam. How many things will be missed and cause the patient more problems down the line?
The hospitals are now operating under restrictions. Surgeons have to have permission to perform surgeries. The hospitals are doing this because they have to preserve supplies such as gloves and masks for the medical personnel treating the infectious Covid-19 patients.
I transcribed a dictation for a patient last night that had an aneurysm. This patient was elderly and had multiple comorbidities. There were three surgeons, cardiothoracic and vascular on the case. They wanted to repair the problem in a staged approach which would require 2 trips to the OR. They were told they had to use the riskier approach and do it in 1 trip to the OR. The patient became coagulopathic during the procedure meaning he was bleeding and they couldn’t get his blood to clot. They had to give him massive amounts of clotting products and pack the chest without closing and go back in the next day to close the chest, so the patient wound up having to make 2 trips to the OR anyway.
I did a dictation today of an man in his 70s who had had a hip replacement and the implants were causing an infection. The surgeon went in today and cleaned out the infection and implanted antibiotic beads. The surgeon stated that the patient needed to have the implants taken out, but because of the Covid-19 situation, the patient would be discharged home and have to be scheduled for the procedure at a later time and to follow up with his orthopedist via televisit.
Just ask, “Is that true, or did you hear it on CNN?”
In Idaho that is being reserved for patients who are gravely ill.
I see.
I heard on my local Philly Radio today that the state of N.J. is planning to ration care and provide only “Palliative care” to the elderly patients.
Yes— I have been reading that and it is every encouraging to me. I am simply stating that “sending people home” does not mean that health care providers have done triage and decided those sent home are beyond hope in terms of treatment of covid-19. Rather, they are sent home because they had already been dying of cancer or COPD or whatever.
Zero cases of C.V. here in our little town.
The NYPost reported that NY does have a triage law that targets old people. Doubt they are there yet.
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