Editor’s note: This is the final installment of the series The Longevity Project, a collaboration between The Aspen Times and the Glenwood Springs Post Independent. Sleep is important for everybody; sleep deprivation can lead to.
Editor’s note: This is the final installment of the series The Longevity Project, a collaboration between The Aspen Times and the Glenwood Springs Post Independent. Sleep is important for everybody; sleep deprivation can lead to.
They re saying goodbye to patients who are still alert as they gasp for breath.
It s no different in Pueblo, where nearly every day, doctors at Parkview Medical Center find themselves trying to comfort COVID-19 patients, many of whom are scared and alone.
Visitors are forbidden, unless the patient is so critically ill that the family wants to transition from medical procedures to only comfort of the patient.
Some need intubation because breathing is a huge challenge.
They are extremely sick and rapidly deteriorating, leaving doctors little time to ascertain patients wishes. It s so difficult to intubate these people because you are at the head of the bed. You re holding their head; you ve got a mask on their face giving them oxygen, and they are looking up at you crying and you are looking down at them telling them that you are going to do the best that you can to keep them alive and keep them safe, said Stephanie Harabaglia, a doctor at Parkview Medical Center.