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Health by Stephen Drill Premium Content  An Australian intensive care nurse on the COVID frontline in London has nightmares about alarms going off with no-one being able to help. As a new coronavirus strain tips Britain s estimated death toll over 100,000, Kathryn Lennon has laid bare the reality of the city s choked hospital network. Shifts are now going up to 15 hours and the standard ratios of one nurse to one patient are being smashed. Nurses have been looking after up to four patients on their own during some parts of their shifts. And intensive care doctors have warned they were almost at the point where they had to prioritise which patients received care because of a shortage of beds and staff. ....
Desperate resuscitations, 15-hour shifts, horror nightmares and heartbreak. An Aussie nurse describes what it’s like working on the frontline in London. ....