Terrifying how many of our medical experts are barely holding on throughout the last two years with all this violence against them

  • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Almost done with my nursing school (not looking forward to entering this Hellpit) and doing my rounds in critical care and yeah this is common. Covid doesn't just fuck with lungs it causes so many other downstream problems like clotting disorders in which patients will get multiple DVTs and then throw one of these giant clots and have an embolism. Treating this via medication leads to hands and feet turning outright black and blue due to vasopressors inducing necrosis if used too long or improperly as some ICUs are too swamped for care to be given effectively and so shit gets forgotten. Then you got patients that survived covid but now have increased risk of stroke, again due to the clotting impact as well as reduced activity tolerance, who then drop several months later. This fucking virus is hell short term and long term and we will likely see a dip in the life expectancy of this country once covid survivors get older and drop.