Based on the shocking testimony of a specialist nurse, a staff member of the weekly Mandiner reconstructed the world of covid intensive care units, the trials of patients and healthcare workers.
István Joó's article published in the weekly newspaper can also be found on the newspaper's portal. We quote some shocking lines from it, since we cannot even imagine how the days pass, what sacrifices the nurses make , including a lady in her thirties with a beautiful and kind face.
After one day off, three days of unworked work.
He will be in the red twice for four hours today. In the meantime, she will take off her clothes, which are already considered hazardous waste, in the same order, and change her soaked bra and panties so that she can rest for two hours in the green zone. There are periods when he gets ten nurses, four or five at a time, but that's still a lot. Let's see what it does. He takes over the patients from the outgoing colleague. He listens to generally important things about them.
After looking at the patient documentation on paper and on the computer, he checks the eight or ten medicine pumps necessary for life support , which are next to each patient, to see if any of them are running out. Then he also checks all the implanted output and input pipes , whether they have not moved from their place, what is the situation with their yield, their patency. From the observations, you must draw conclusions as to whether it is necessary to change the therapy. Depending on the urine, replace fluids or, on the contrary, give a diuretic. Feeding should be adjusted based on what is returned through the stomach tube. From this, it can be decided whether it should be expanded or reduced to a minimum, and the infusions will not stop in the meantime.
Then you can't miss the eye, mouth and barrier toilet... Who knows what's going on with the eye toilet, if it's not sanitary. However, after two or three hours, the eyes of a patient who has been put under anesthesia or in an artificial coma and ventilated will be completely closed, so they must be kept clean.
So a covid intensive care nurse doesn't have a second. The patient needs to be positioned, turned this way and that as much as possible, since his lungs can improve if he is not only lying on his back.
The article published in Mandiner here .
Photo: MTI / Zoltán Balogh
