My First encounter with a Corona patient

Abstract

Past few weeks have  been a challenging time for all the health care workers, especially those who are front liners and directly involved in the management of Corona patient during this pandemic time. As this is a new experience for all of us, hence one can feel the fear and uncertainty in the management of these patients.

As intensive care physicians, what we are offering in our hospital at present is to review these patients on the Covid ward in a view to assess them for a need of ventilatory requirement. If they are in need of invasive ventilation then they are brought to a specific area in theatre for intubation and ventilation with all the necessary precautions and preparations. These patients are not currently offered any of the non invasive interventions which are  normally offered to  non-covid patients such as Nasal high flow oxygen, CPAP or BIPAP as these can be aerosol generating.