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I am a senior doctor in Critical Care in one of the UK’s largest Trusts, so unhappily I have gained expertise in COVID, and humbly I say that there is

If you have to ask, it’s disappointing. But the answer is none of the staff who we need to care for critically ill patients have quite mastered the art of

How should we consider #COVID19?This is primarily a vitally induced thrombotic disease spread by droplets Post-mortems tell us the virus causes endothelial damage and overt blood clots in both small

Inflexible? We have doubled ICU capacity in a monthI went into an ICU with 14 COVID mostly ventilated patients ~30 times last week, and the nursing staff probably spent 30h

We need to do an analysis of late v early intubation strategies with #COVID19Imagine an Early ventilation trigger of RR30 and SPO2