Health
‘Working in ICU is like flying a plane’: the secret world of intensive care – The Guardian
The long read: Even within a hospital, the ICU can feel like another world. But critical care goes far beyond simply keeping people alive – it’s also about what happens next
In early March, Mike Brunner, an intensive care doctor at Northwick Park hospital in north London, saw his first few Covid-19 patients. They were arriving with mild coughs, but just hours later were relying on oxygen tanks to breathe, their lungs on the brink of collapse. Within days, three patients became seven, then 20, and from then on, said Brunner, we were in it.
For a while, Brunner felt as if he and his colleagues were the only ones who saw the huge change coming. We could see this tsuna…
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