“We’re going to need Decon.”
“Main Street, use full precautions.”
“We have an isolation patient.”
“Shortness of breath, fever, just moved here from New York.”
“4th Floor apartment, vomiting, fever, use precautions.”
“We need resupply, out of gowns.”
“Positive screen. Take all precautions.”
Patient on corner, just left hospital who wouldn’t test him because they are out of kits, wants a ride to another hospital.’
“Out at the hospital, give us a decon tag.”
And so it goes.
A guy I have known professionally for over twenty years is on a vent.
My boss at the hospital called and wants me to sit with him tomorrow and go over a “Con-Ops” plan. That means continuing operations in case either he or I become incapacitated the other will know what to do.
I brought a patient to my hospital today. As I went by the decon room they were intubating another possible COVID patient.