Preamble I want to start this post off by declaring I am a doctor, an intensive Care doctor at that, so I have witnessed first hand what this virus can do! I also want to state that I am NOT anti-vaccine, nor am I a conspiracy theorist! I wanted to post this in order to... Continue Reading →
You don’t have to be home alone with COVID!
Since the arrival of COVID, the way we approach things as medical professionals has had to change, almost beyond recognition. As a clinical fellow on ITU, you would expect me to be in the thick of it – intubating, inserting central lines, learning how covid patients respond to the various ventilator settings. But that is... Continue Reading →
My Coronavirus Journey (Up to 22nd May)!
Thanks so much to our contributor, Dr Matt Bigwood for writing this for us. These are his musings, direct from a frontline healthcare worker on ICU. He is a ST5 in ITU and Anaesthesia. News...something is coming?!! January 2020 I first heard about 'the Coronavirus’, like most people, sometime in January. It was pretty low... Continue Reading →
COVID-19 – Your one-stop resource!
Dr Matt Bigwood - Peer reviewer, moderator and research editor Welcome!! I hope this page will form a single resource, as up to date as possible, on everything to do with the topic that has hit us all so hard...Coronavirus! There is a lot out there and you can spend hours getting lost on the... Continue Reading →