COVID-19 and switching gears
March 26, 2020 My emotions are very similar to my original blog post. I have so many of them about so many issues related to this global pandemic but I will avoid politics and my economic fears (which could be an entirely different blog of equal or greater length), so I can focus on my personal experience, fears and feelings. As you have read in the original post, the cardiac cath lab is essentially closed with the exception of emergent “life or death” cases, and we are allocating staff to other parts of the hospital to assist where additional staff is needed (essentially everywhere). My last shift I was working in the overflow MICU/CCU area that was set up in a monitoring area of the hospital for patients that have just come out of major surgery to recover before stabilizing and going to a hospital floor. I will not get into details to protect the confidentiality of the patients and to not dive into the specific issues about the hospital I work at (for the hospitals protecti