Posted: Apr 22, 2021 12:30 PM CT | Last Updated: April 22
Kelsey Doucette is an ICU nurse at Saskatoon's Royal University Hospital.(Submitted)
Kelsey Doucette has become used to the whooshing sound of a ventilator.
For more than a year, Doucette has been caring for COVID-19 patients as a nurse in the intensive care unit at Saskatoon's Royal University Hospital.
Doucette says the hospital's ICU is full of patients on ventilators, with doctors, nurses and respiratory therapists doing minute-by-minute care.
All patients with COVID-19 are now in isolation wards, and medical personnel must put on full personal protective equipment before stepping inside.
Doucette says the ICU ward has become a stressful place, with anxious health-care providers carefully watching COVID-19 cases, looking for a spike in numbers.