CNN CNN Newsroom With Ana Cabrera August 24, 2021 17:45:00
We have a line of sight on every patient. there's a patient to the staff ratio that can exist with this population and the swiftness it's come. right now we have 33 ventilators. we have over 28 patients on bipap, plus or minus high flow. that adds it up to 50 patients. all the patients would be in a traditional intensive care unit. we are asking every nurse to step up and to be icu nurses, and we're working with a team method. with icu nirss, floor nurses to try to handle the acuity as it is spread throughout the hospital. in hospital can sustain that type of acuity. and so we need to react an...
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