Name: Is the NHS ready? Inside the Welsh intensive care unit fighting coronavirus
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T16:09:55.000Z
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It's a scenario they may have to face one.

A patient who's had a cardiac arrest and who may have Corona virus.

So that's going into the bin now training in personal protective equipment in another.

They are brain surgeons, A any nurses and in a neighboring theater.

Denise Thatis here being shown how to intubate a cove, it 19 patient while minimizing their exposure to infection.

They'll be using more protective masks when it comes to it, but for now they need to preserve stocks.

This is one of the highest risk areas that we have to do.

We're close to the mouth, which is where the virus could be.

So you'll see the team a training hugely at this particular procedure to be safe on dhe.

What did it feel like to be intimidating in that team scenario and with all the peopIe kill people wasn't isn't because I thought it was gonna need to wear and especially the glasses where sat down and talked it through.

We'll do golfing now and then we'll do it again.

In two weeks, 600 staff will be trained like this in this Cardiff hospital alone.

Whales, his biggest critical care team, is about to get much bigger.

All right, this isn't going to be over in the next few weeks.

This is a minimum of 6 to 9 months, up to 12 months on Dhe.

If we don't pace ourselves, how would you sum up?

But it's also something that intensive care was made for.

Are you scared by what the next few months might hold?

I think we always have an out to facade of common intensive care.

We try to instill calm in a sea of chaos, and I think that's what we're doing.

We put in on that facade of calm, which helps.

It makes a big difference, but although I'm a doctor, I'm also a dad, has burned the sun and so the things which concerned me are not what we do in the hospital here.

I know how to do it It's the things that happen elsewhere, actually, to those who are elderly, frail, vulnerable, all with serious underlying health conditions, we have not forgotten about you.

Matt Morgan wrote an open letter for the British Medical Journal recently inspired in part by thoughts of his parents who fall into the more vulnerable Corona virus categories.

The checklist is purposely designed to be used as a daily ward round, but there are and as he now help circulate covert 19 critical care video training to other intensive care units.

His colleague Julie Hi Field, the unit's clinical psychologist, is focusing on how to manage the personal toll this could have on frontline health workers.

We've heard accounts from Italy of staff having to make terrible decisions over who to prioritize the ventilation.

If that is the truth of the situation, Do you think that could happen here in your hospital?

And if so, had you a quip, you'll team psychologically for a scenario like that, I think the reality is, is how how can you prepare psychologically for something like that, other than to know that it's a risk?

I think it's important to know that no matter how much we might limit the health.

However, we're always here giving the care to the best of our abilities on.

That's the moral check when you come back to it at the end of the day.

Did I do the best I can with what I have on?

But this is something that we have to consider going forward.

Planning for worst case scenarios while they have time.

Field staff Wellbeing Guidance is now being shared across the UK.

They are also planning on how best to support families of those admitted.

It's gonna be hugely difficult for families whose loved ones are gonna be in critical care units because presumably that getting close to them is gonna be difficult.

There are some options that we are enabling at the moment, which is family being able to be trained and supervised in personal protective equipment for those end of life situations.

But the reality is is that we're no goingto have lots of opportunities to do that are lots off equipment spare to do that and also patients.

Families might be frightened of doing that as a while.

Do I go in and say goodbye on field slightly at risk myself, or do I miss that opportunity?

That's that's gonna be really tricky for them.

I mean, it's extraordinary that thes issues are now being considered in this way.

We have an idea about creating a family liaison team in our unit because what we're hoping to enable is virtual visits.

Eso being able to kind of Skype facetime instead because it takes away the peopIe.

But humans need touch, and that's gonna be hard.

I think my message is that we're doing all we can.

Listen to the advice from experts sciences and perfect.

It doesn't give us a ll the answers, but it's the best thing we have.

And so the covert 19 training continues apace soon, no doubt to be rapidly implemented is the number of deaths linked to this virus continues to rise.

Our rush on a median who's an n HS surgeon and Chris Hops and whose chief executive of N hs providers the body which represents hospital trust on foundations Chris hops.

And first, when you take together the lack of ventilators, the lack all those promised of protective clothing masks and so on on DDE belatedly ramping up the testing.

H s ready for this crisis that is underway now, so we know that there's going to be a big challenge here.

But the n hs, we have 1.2 million staff who are a ll rallying round to make the preparations that are required.

We know, for example, on ventilator capacity will be able to go, we think from 8000 ventilators, 12,000 ventilators.

You have the prime Minister say that we're now targeting 25,000 tests.

Today we're looking at increasing the number off intensive care beds.

S is doing all of the preparations that you would expect it to.

We have the advantage of the fact that we are unlike in Italy, where it seemed to descend very quickly and be geographically concentrated.

We have had the advantage of being able to see how others have experienced this, and we've had the chance to prepare.

And despite that advantage and the time to prepare, we're hearing reports that London paramedics are having their masks rationed.

So nothing could be more ensuring the safety off our frontline staff, on whom we are going to rely so heavily over the next few weeks.

You think they are, say, asking Stan tonight on unclear Lee.

We see there is a level of anxiety amongst staff about access to personal protection equipment.

That's completely understandable, that interesting so effectively, we know because we've had conversations today with the national team looking after peopIe that there are protecting, claiming that there are sufficient national stocks.

However, there is some lumpy distribution because effectively orders for peopIe for personal protection equipment gone through the roof on the logistics and taking the time to catch up.

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