Sicker and younger : Toronto ICU copes with pressure during third wave of pandemic
by Holly McKenzie-Sutter, The Canadian Press
Posted Apr 15, 2021 1:30 pm EDT
Last Updated Apr 15, 2021 at 4:48 pm EDT
TORONTO – Intensive care nurse Jane Abas is assessing her patient, checking her medication, and monitoring her heart rate.
The 68-year-old woman tested positive for a COVID-19 variant shortly after arriving at Toronto’s Humber River Hospital for an unrelated health concern. Her condition rapidly deteriorated and she had to be placed on a ventilator, suffering a cardiac arrest after the intubation process.
Abas says the woman is more stable this morning, but as cases involving the variants of the novel coronavirus rise, a patient’s situation can change quickly.
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TORONTO - Intensive care nurse Jane Abas is assessing her patient, checking her medication and monitoring her heart rate.
A 60-year-old COVID-19 patient fights for his life, desperately gasping for air as head intensivist Dr. Ali Ghafouri, centre, provides life saving medical care in an emergency situation in the intensive care unit at the Humber River Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. The patient was intubated and put on a ventilator successfully. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
TORONTO - Intensive care nurse Jane Abas is assessing her patient, checking her medication and monitoring her heart rate.
Holly McKenzie-Sutter
A 60-year-old COVID-19 patient fights for his life, desperately gasping for air as head intensivist Dr. Ali Ghafouri, centre, provides life saving medical care in an emergency situation in the intensive care unit at the Humber River Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. The patient was intubated and put on a ventilator successfully. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette April 15, 2021 - 10:13 AM
TORONTO - Intensive care nurse Jane Abas is assessing her patient, checking her medication and monitoring her heart rate.
The 68-year-old woman tested positive for a COVID-19 variant shortly after arriving at Toronto s Humber River Hospital for an unrelated health concern. Her condition rapidly deteriorated and she had to be placed on a ventilator, suffering a cardiac arrest after the intubation process.
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