Not saying ignore all calls… but if this guy doesn’t have any standing to receive and make medical decisions, then no reason to interact with him.
Well situation is resolving thank the lord. Dude apparently is loaded so nephew doesnt want his wife to get the cash if he dies. Now, the wife is reasonablr, pt dnr, on 4 pressors, gonna pass tonite. Nephew no longer allowed to talk to staff.
That generally is the case… hopefully as loaded as your pt is, he made provisions on his Will and new phew doesn’t get anything anyway…so sorry though for pt and those that truly love him.
I've been taking a homeopathic tincture of Ivermectin throughout the pandemic, so far no COVID for me. The fluoride in my tap water has been helping my dentition too!
And you're covered for strongyloidiasis!!
I think the places where they didn't work had already reached herd stupidity...
I am master of ignoring calls for days on end. Too busy taking time to don and doff and make vent changes that won’t change my outcome. I simply defend the nurses and let the families know that we are all busy taking care of their loved ones. One update a day and from me once or twice a week. Do they want us on the phone or at the bedside?
I tell them to get on the phone and call their loved ones otherwise they too will end up in the ICU. While I am admonishing them, my PA is soothing them.
I am back. I really try to be good.
I shouldn't engage, but here goes. Masks work just fine for preventing COVID transmission in minimally symptomatic people. Masks aren't effective when deployed in non-standard configurations or in someone that's a viral factory spewing millions of particles due to a forceful constant cough or shouting/singing.
Shhh, you're taking away their freedum to choose an ET tube instead.
"Fourteen of the 15 states with no mask wearing policy for the general public through September reported a high COVID-19 rate. Of the 8 states with at least 75% mask adherence, none reported a high COVID-19 rate. States with the lowest levels of mask adherence were most likely to have high COVID-19 rates in the subsequent month, independent of mask policy or demographic factors."
How about Vermont?
Me too. I support the right of people to make terrible decisions, and my right not to pay for it.
Seems that 4 of the top 5 which had the strictest rules had some of the worst fatality rates.......
The first US outbreak location was Washington state, not NY or NJ.
I don't believe people have the right to ruin mine, or someone else's life, because of their terrible decisions.
What is wearing an N-95 when I’m in the car alone going to do, and how is that even relevant to what I said?
Honest question, is discussing the reasons for COVID's resurgence and methods for regaining control over a public health crisis that affects our day to day work now solely a political topic?
If you're discussing lack of mask mandates, lack of vaccinations, etc., that's ok. If you're discussing Trump did this, Biden did this, etc., then it's bringing politics into an already heated discussion that has in the past and will continue to turn into a Dem vs Repub debate instead of debating the merits of why COVID is a problem again.
You and me both…welcome back!
Half***ed it is more *** than it actually got.
There's no one that's not at risk for COVID, so I guess I'd agree with your 3rd and 4th sentences. The rest of that paragraph is pretty premature. It's not endemic. We don't have a reliable estimate of Delta's CFR yet, so >99% survival might be optimistic. I think if the whole country is vaccinated then your statements make sense. Giving up trying to mitigate the damage Delta will do is, at this point, stupid and irresponsible. Gambling that the the next mutation is going to cause the virus to shed the ability to produce long-haul symptoms and morph it into the flu in terms of case fatality rate and need for hospitalization/ventilation seems pretty optimistic.
I'd agree that if we could mitigate it, then we should. Unfortunately this virus doesn't seem amenable to mitigation.
It will end up being in the top 5 when we look back in the next 5-10 years.
It is amenable to mitigation. It's called vaccination, wear masks, and avoid large gatherings. Everyone needs to do it for it to work. The reason it is not slowing down is that >50% of people are not vaccinated (~40% >18 years old) and even more are not wearing masks or avoiding large gatherings. You can't claim the virus is unable to be mitigated when people aren't doing the things needed to mitigate it.
Government can't mitigate it.
New York, California and New Jersey don’t count. They were hit in the very beginning when we were all clueless and intubating everyone. It’s where we learned what NOT to do. We all know or should know this.
Stop it.
