“Then I got an email assigning me my singular mask. One.”
Then I got an email assigning me my singular mask. One. I was advised that if it gets dirty or anything happens to it, I can trade it in for another one. I have to bring it in, give them my soiled mask, and then get a new one. I was assigned a single N95 mask.
But the anticipation is that everyone who can do critical care will be shunted over to that once it becomes necessary. So I anticipate that I will be doing critical care on COVID patients relatively soon, as soon as the staffing becomes stretched. What’s so scary to so many people is that we know we’re going to be doing it anyway. I really wanted to prepare. For example, in anesthesia people should be setting up simulations. We have dummies that people train on for intubation.
I don’t think we have the capacity for it. Essentially everything is going to have to get set up as COVID care. Right now we haven’t exceeded that capacity, but we also don’t have the cases quite yet. We’re just sort of on the uptick. So we haven’t hit that wall today.
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