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– Please listen, because this is disturbing. I don’t want to be the last person to look into your scared eyes.
An intensive care physician in the United States has filmed a video of himself simulating an intubation in a covid-19 patient who needs help breathing.
The video, which was posted on Facebook and Twitter this weekend, she was filmed in an intensive care unit at the Missouri Baptist Medical Center in St. Louis, Missouri.
Intensive care physician Ken Remy had just delivered the sad message to family members over the phone that their loved one had died of covid-19. Therefore, he felt the need to send a clear message about how critical it is for people to practice precautions such as hand washing, social distancing, and wearing bandages.
In the video, Remy simulates a situation in which a patient with Covid-19 is subjected to intubation. Intubation is a procedure in which the patient is inserted a plastic tube into the trachea with the intention of supporting or taking over the breathability of the machines.
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– This is serious. I beg you
In the video, Remy is holding a laryngoscope and a plastic tube, apparently preparing to perform the procedure. According to Remy, this may be one of the last things a life-threatening COVID-19 patient sees and experiences when awake.
– Please listen because this is sinister. I don’t want to be the last person to look into his scared eyes, he writes on Twitter.
“This is what it looks like when you breathe 40 times a minute and you have an oxygen saturation well below 80,” Remy says in the video.
“This is what it will look like.”
“I hope the last moment of your life doesn’t look like this.”
“Because this is what you will see at the end of your life if we don’t start wearing masks when we are in the crowd. When we don’t practice social distancing. When we don’t wash our hands regularly. I promise you. This is what you will see. I promise. This is what your mother, father or children will see at the end of their lives when they contract the covid disease. “
“This is serious. I beg you. Practice the measures that reduce the transmission of covid disease, so that we can effectively prevent the disease from affecting you and your loved ones,” concludes Remy.
Several US and international media have covered the video and relayed the message to Remy.
Intubation procedure
Helge Opdahl, specialist in anesthesiology at Oslo University Hospital, writes the following in Store Norske Leksikon about the intubation procedure:
“To get the tube in the correct position, use an instrument called a laryngoscope to press the tongue to the side and lift the root of the tongue and larynx so that the upper part of the throat and vocal cords are visible. The tube is most often inserted through the mouth, which is called oral intubation, ”Opdahl writes.
“In most situations, intubation will ensure a clear airway and facilitate the implementation of artificial respiration with overpressure ventilation,” he writes.
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Has treated 1000 patients with covid-19
Remy has treated more than 1,000 COVID-19 patients, 100 of whom have been intubated.
Remy tells CNN that he is hearing more and more erroneous claims from people that masks are ineffective against infections and that patients say they are not afraid of the coronavirus because the risk of dying is so low.
“I wanted to show people what it would be like if they ended up in the intensive care unit with covid-19 disease,” Remy said in a television interview with CNN.
Remy says he has experienced too many times that patients die as a result of covid-19, that is, the disease caused by the coronavirus (sars-cov-2).
– It is difficult to do this continuously. “The only way I know how to keep people out of the intensive care unit is to prevent people from contracting the disease,” he told CNN.
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Remy is also the head of a covid laboratory at the University of Washington Medical Center that tests new therapies for the covid-19 disease.
The United States is the country in the world most affected by the corona pandemic. There have been more than 13 million corona cases and more than 268,000 deaths per corona, according to Worldometers figures.
One death per crown in the United States every 40 seconds
On Wednesday, there were 2,400 new deaths related to coronary heart disease in the United States in one day, according to John Hopkins University, which monitors the coronary pandemic. This is the highest number of daily deaths per crown since May.
On Tuesday, it was the first time since May that the number of daily deaths exceeded 2,000 in the United States, corresponding to one death per crown every 40 seconds, Reuters writes.
In Norway, there are almost 34,000 crown cases and 316 crown-related deaths. On Thursday afternoon, 123 people with proven covid-19 were admitted to the hospital (an increase of seven admissions from Wednesday). Of these, 22 receive respiratory treatment, according to recent figures from the Norwegian Health Directorate.
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Norwegians are praised in a recent report
On Thursday, Americans celebrate Thanksgiving. Despite the significant deterioration of the pandemic, millions of Americans are defying local government advice and national health councils to refrain from going home to their family and loved ones during the holidays.
Yet Norwegians are praised in a recent OECD report for managing the pandemic. While the OECD paints a grim picture of the corona situation in much of Europe, Norway is cited as an example of a country with good infection control.
“Some European countries, such as Norway and Finland, have been able to better limit the spread of the virus, partly due to geographical factors such as low population density, but also due to better preparedness and rapid and effective testing and monitoring, as well as a greater confidence and willingness of the population to comply with the regulations and recommendations of the authorities, “the report reads.
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