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One is the intense inflammation they had in the lung made their oxygen levels really low, and so they needed high amounts of oxygen. if they didnt tire of their breathing so quickly as many patients with other pneumonia often struggle with their breathing. we also saw things like a lot of blood clots, which we occasionally see in other sepsis, but were far more frequent in this disease. nearly all the patients coming through to icu now had this new sepsis, and for the ai, this was an illness it ...

The coronavirus pushed intensive care units beyond their limit. but even before the pandemic, these wards had been running at very near capacity. and it is here that one of the biggest killers in the uk, and indeed the world, lurks. it is called sepsis. so sepsis is when there is a severe infection, and when the bodys response to that severe infection leads to organ failure. it can set in without warning, and can affect anyone. this is a lady in her early 50s, she is in day four on the unit, she...

Youre based in houston. the city is seeing a significant strain on its medical services. i heard official theres say for 26 minutes on thursday all of san antonio is without any free ems units. meaning they had no available ambulances. >> were seeing rising cases. every person i see come into the emergency department is covid positive. i think back to the last four shift thats i worked, that fourth shift when leaving the emergency department, i still had a patient that admitted for covid pneumon...

These people made a decision and now theyre facing the consequences? >> thats not how we treat people, right? you come to the hospital, we take care of you, the patient, not your bad decisions or even your decisions, thats not relevant. i dont think it would be relevant, we all worked really hard over the year to provide quality of care. what i think you have is providers who are burned out and unable to muster the compassion they need to do this complex and exhausting work or theyre leaving med...

Entitled toe that help and that hard work. you say many health care workers rejecting life-saving vaccines feels like a giant f. you. thats what you say. from about 29% of adults np this country. tell me about that. >> i think were really seeing that health care is made out of people. were just people. were devoted people. were well-trained people. but ultimately were people that are going through a really difficult year, now two years. and when we feel that most of the country is unable to list...

To get a free shot that has been set aside for them and that can save their lives are then tumbling into this system where they are basically pushing aside people who are there for traumatic brain injury, people there for lung disease, people there for heart disease, people would normally fill up these icus. these are not designed to be big, empty spaces, john. these are busy spaces always operating closer to capacity and now that capacity is being pushed push ed to the limits. these numbers are...

Mississippi medical center. that would be stopped by dozens of medical personnel being shipped in as a disaster management team from the federal government. it means the hospitals and icus, even pediatric hospitals everywhere in that state are totally full and down on coal sport, as you saw, it means nurses are to heartbroken to frustrated and too exhausted to work in the icu day after day they cant do it anymore. i know weve been talking about covid in front of paging covid stories for a long t...

It is not an exaggeration. thats an exact number. i had to make the decision two weeks ago to transfer pregnant patients away from parkland hospital. to have to make that decision, gut-wrenching. gut-wrenching. >> gut-wrenching is the right word for it. pregnant women are showing up in icus being sick with covid and children showing up severely ill with covid and there is no room for them anymore. they have to be transferred hundreds of miles away if there is a bed there. social media and privat...

Who arent willing to protect themselves? >> don, first off, i want to thank you for having me on the show. i really appreciate it. as a health care professional you cant have that outlook on it. anybody that comes into the icu, is very critically ill, and whether they got the vaccine or not its my job to take care of them the best that i can with every advancement that we have and i wish people were -- more of them were vaccinated but i dont treat them any differently. i go to work and i take ca...

Is draining and impossible and its hard to connect to your team when you feel like theyre not quite on your team. i think its exhaustion. >> jeremy, youve worked in icus in multiple covid hotspots, new york, arizona, now youre at a houston hospital. last year was different but with lifesaving vaccines so accessible, are you having a hard time sympathizing with patients who arent willing to protect themselves? >> don, first off, thank you for having me on the show. i really appreciate it. as a he...