In times of live or die questions, country comparisons are informative. It is the time to endorse, again and again, complete transparency to facilitate learning across borders (see recently The Guardian 13.5.2020). China has not been very transparent at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemia. Other countries should not follow this track in terms of lack transparency. This appies equally to transparency of hospital and care professionals doing amazing jobs in these critical times. No doubt about this. In order to learn about the need for qualified employees in this crisis, I recommend the full thread of the tweets from “Mary Poppins” on what it means to administer a respiratory machine to a patient.
Ok, dann gehe ich heute mal ein bisschen auf die Beatmung ein.
Selbst in der Öffentlichkeit ist ja langsam angekommen, dass es nicht reicht, einfach mal schnell ein Beatmungsgerät hinzustellen.
Es muss von Menschen bedient werden, die sich auskennen.— Madame Poppins🇪🇺🏳️🌈 (@marypoppins_77) April 2, 2020
The experience needed, the understanding of medical processes are only part of the story. Stress, mental overload, burn-out due to long-term shift-work and irregular working hours including frequent (unpaid?) overtime and lack of sufficient training may cause more fatalities than would otherwise be the case. Teamwork across shifts and weekends has to be effectively coordinated. Medication profiles need to updated and understood for adequate application from all team members not only the medical doctor or shift supervisor. In emergency situations panic control mechanism also are relevent features that have to be learned and experienced. In a previous analysis of data from 18.000 nurses in Canada we could provide evidence of the importance of some of these measures. Transparency is key. Cover-ups of past failures cost dearly in this global pandemia. Full paper.
http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/gjhs/article/view/0/38574
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