Posted the 04/20/2021 4:38 PM
Update the 04/20/2021 4:53 PM
Video length: 3 min.
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France 3
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France Televisions
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Out of breath, the intensive care unit of the Saint-Malo hospital (Ille-et-Vilaine) had to admit Covid patients transferred by other saturated establishments.
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In the service resuscitation of the Saint-Malo hospital (Ille-et-Vilaine), already saturated, three caregivers surround the youngest Covid patient in the service. Aged 44, he was admitted a fortnight ago. Doctors and nurses try to lower the doses of the drug that keeps him in a coma, but it is difficult to wake up. According to Doctor Charlotte Quentin, resuscitation doctor, these Covid patients are “very nervous neurologically, very anxious“. “We grope, all the time, all the time“, she says.
In this intensive care unit, 11 patients with Covid-19 are hospitalized. Some are still contagious, and almost all are intubated and ventilated. A 70-year-old patient was laid on his stomach to relieve his lungs. “When they are on the stomach, it is because it is serious (…). These are stays that are extended, in general, it is at least two weeks, or even more“, Explain Dr. Maximilien Chesnais, an anethesist-resuscitator intern, who adds that another patient admitted on November 14 has still not left the service to this day.
Last week, the department welcomed two new patients a day, which had never happened in such a short time. The teams saw this third wave of the Covid-19 surge, with the airs of return to square one.
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