To maximize the number of severe COVID-19 cases that can be treated, many hospital pulmonologists are acting as clinical supervisors — retraining doctors and nurses with less experience treating ICU patients.
An ICU bed at a makeshift, temporary hospital in Manhattan's Central Park East. Throughout New York City, many doctors who usually do plastic surgery or treat children are learning how to monitor people who need to be on ventilators to breathe.An ICU bed at a makeshift, temporary hospital in Manhattan's Central Park East. Throughout New York City, many doctors who usually do plastic surgery or treat children are learning how to monitor people who need to be on ventilators to breathe.
"It's people," he says."You think of an ICU, maybe you think four walls, some beds. But really it's people."is the chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at University Hospital Brooklyn, and under normal circumstances he is one of the doctors in his hospital's intensive care unit — directly treating patients with respiratory illness.
Across New York City, many doctors who usually do plastic surgery or treat children are learning how to monitor people who need to be on ventilators to breathe. Some medical residents who were supposed to be learning how to repair broken bones or deliver babies are instead learning how to manage patients who have fluid in their lungs.
To maximize the number of severe cases that can be treated, many hospital pulmonologists are acting as clinical supervisors, overseeing teams of doctors and nurses that have less experience treating seriously ill patients. "Certainly I have never experienced a situation like this in all the time I've been a physician," says, a critical care physician and pulmonologist at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center in Manhattan."We have filled our ICUs. We have converted operating rooms into additional ICU space. We have converted regular medicine floors that would normally take care of much less sick patients into ICU space.
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