My brother (60s) is receiving treatment for inoperable abdominal tumours ... it's hoped that the treatment will give him longer and a better quality of life than would otherwise be the case.
He has been told that pressure on the NHS is such that, if his lungs are affected by the tumours or if he catches Covid, he will not be considered for treatment on a ventilator ... if he dies because he needed ventilation and didn't get it, it may be because there are too many other Covid patients using them ... where does that put him in the statistics?
So sorry to hear that @Dovefromabove . Why given the situation hasn't the NHS purchased more ventilators by now. I hope your brothers treatment works out for the best
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
I think they got have lots more than they had ... but my understanding (@punkdoc will correct or confirm) that the care of someone on a ventilator is a specialist skill ... you can't just pop a patient onto a ventilator ... they need trained specialist doctors and nurses ... can't wave a magic wand for them, can't even buy them ... training takes time ...and as well as that they need the ward space to put them and all the 'sockets' etc to plug them into whatever they have to be plugged into,
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove,blesssing to your brother My youngest daughter has a friend he's 30, various forms of cancer,sepsis. He also has inoperable tumours in his chest,they make his mobility difficult. He has a specific adapted bungalow. People see him,(he's huge) think he's exaggerating his condition. He's imuno suppressed and shielded for 2 years,got Covid last week!
Yes it took me 15 years from starting at medical school to become an ICU consultant and to be vaguely competent at looking after sick patients on ventilators. It probably took another 5 years as a consultant to be more than vaguely competent.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Lovely sunny day. Bakewell thronged with out of towners.
Not a soul to be seen wearing a mask inside any of the shops or in the streets.
Everybody in the surgery wearing one.
As you'd expect. It's no longer a legal requirement in most public places. Although 'recommended' in enclosed spaces. Businesses can ask customers to wear masks but it's also up to them to enforce their own policies..or not. I suspect many businesses effected by Covid.. especially the catering industry..will choose to be lenient on the basis that they'd like their business to survive. Not unsurprisingly. In addition, social distancing has been non existent since Xmas (at least) so hasn't mask wearing become somewhat less effective in anycase?
Today recorded the highest number of people admitted to hospital with Covid up here, since the pandemic began. Oh- but it's all fine....no need to bother with masks or anything else....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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So sorry to hear that @Dovefromabove . Why given the situation hasn't the NHS purchased more ventilators by now.
I hope your brothers treatment works out for the best
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My youngest daughter has a friend he's 30, various forms of cancer,sepsis. He also has inoperable tumours in his chest,they make his mobility difficult. He has a specific adapted bungalow. People see him,(he's huge) think he's exaggerating his condition. He's imuno suppressed and shielded for 2 years,got Covid last week!
Yes it took me 15 years from starting at medical school to become an ICU consultant and to be vaguely competent at looking after sick patients on ventilators.
It probably took another 5 years as a consultant to be more than vaguely competent.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
In addition, social distancing has been non existent since Xmas (at least) so hasn't mask wearing become somewhat less effective in anycase?
Oh- but it's all fine....no need to bother with masks or anything else....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
And here's the link in a clickable form (the above us a screenshot):
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/coronavirus-vaccine-people-with-severely-weakened-immune-system/