Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) in the Covid -19 pandemic.

Some Trusts and now insisting that patients who are in cardiac arrest and have a suspected diagnosis of Covid 19 will not be given Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) or ventilated in A&E unless the emergency department staff are wearing full personal protective equipment. This is to stop the risk of virus particles being released into the air and affecting staff attending them and other patients…

Mask and other protective gear

Due to the coronavirus, many retailers are running out of stock of surgical and protective gears. This event has made the healthcare and public struggle to purchase them due to the shortage…

What is CoVid-19 (Coronavirus), how does it Kill humans and what can the healthcare professionals do to help and what can we do to try to help ourselves?

The coronavirus is named thus as it has a “Crown of protein “, “Co” for “Corona “ and “ V” for Virus and there are several variants. The new virus was first identified on 29th Dec 2019 was named “2019 Novel Virus “, “2019nCoV”. Most colds and flus are rhino viruses, and influenza virus causes a “flu”, such as Spanish Flu which killed millions of people….