I think California actually has a law mandating a 1:2 ratio in the ICU

As far as PPE, most of our staff had to recertify on respirators a few weeks ago. I'd expect that other hospitals have been doing the same.

Probably.

I just got fit tested myself 🙂 pain in the area but hey. Takes a lot of time to do on mass

I have been spending a good bit of time working in a local hospital but mostly on the admin side so I don't know what the nurses and doctors have been doing lately.

China posted a doco of how well their icu isolation wards are

It takes 45 mins to get into a hazmat suit

3 hrs working

45 mins to get out

They didn't make me do the fit test because I'm non-clinical. I'm just the guy every patient's family coughs on.

You dead now

You work in a hospital or something?

Barely

Visitor receptionist

What level of ppe you wearing?

Mandate vs optional?

Gloves optional, masks not allowed unless we're showing symptoms due to the shortage

Oooff

Byo mask?

I was in the billing office of a hospital today, off site from the main hospital, and they were rounding up masks from the dispensers near the door due to shortages and theft.

I don't care if I get it. No kids, elderly relatives hundreds of miles away, and I'm 31 and healthy. The issue is me contaminating a couple hundred people in a single day

You have to ask for a mask at the desk now, can't just grab one.

Yeah we keep them behind the counter now. Too many people were walking out the door with whole boxes.

there was actually a translated interview a few days ago

that indicated they were implementing a sort of triage

to that effect

So maybe it is really happening and not just early guidance

Well its crappy to think about but better than the split the baby approach leading to more dead.

I'm helping out with busy work in the ICU tomorrow so I might have more info in 24 hours

here you go

https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=https://www.corriere.it/cronache/20_marzo_09/coronavirus-scegliamo-chi-curare-chi-no-come-ogni-guerra-196f7d34-617d-11ea-8f33-90c941af0f23.shtml&prev=search

I question the wisdom of having the guy that sits in the seat at the front door also wander around the ICU while potentially contaminated but whatever

``Is there a written rule?
«At the moment, despite what I read, no. As a rule, even if I realize that it is a bad word, patients with serious cardiorespiratory pathologies, and people with severe coronary artery problems, are carefully evaluated, because they tolerate acute hypoxia poorly and have little chance of surviving the phase criticism ".

Nothing else?
"If a person between 80 and 95 has severe respiratory failure, you probably won't proceed. If he has a multi-organic failure of more than three vital organs, it means he has a one hundred percent mortality rate. He is now gone. »

Do you let him go?
"This is also a terrible sentence. But unfortunately it is true. We are not in a position to tempt what are called miracles. It is reality ». ``

That's not unusual. At a certain point even in the best conditions it's just cruel to put someone through that kind of intense care in their final moments

A lot of this is westerners realizing we're still mortal

Hard facts of life

Sounds easy to say, I may see them sooner than I would hope

Pension shortfall? What pension shortfall?

Right?

Somehow I can see greedy millennials licking their lips about a possible inheritance too.

Of course in some cases greedy boomers already reverse mortgaged the house so they can travel more or buy another timeshare.

Or a cruise. 😂😂😂