How a 7 p.m. Walmart run and makeshift ICU in a rural Missouri hospital saved a dying patient

[Sherman A1]

For six days, Dr. Mohamed Nabeel Kuziez and his team at a small emergency room in southeastern Missouri did everything they could to keep a 67-year-old woman with severe pneumonia alive.

The day after Kathie Ganime was admitted on Jan. 12, Kuziez saw that her infection was so critical that she needed to be transferred from Madison Medical Center — a 15-bed hospital in Fredericktown — to an intensive care unit at a larger hospital.

But after calling 19 hospitals — in Missouri, Kansas, Illinois and Arkansas — the staff at Madison Medical Center couldn’t find a single open ICU bed due to the surge in COVID-19 patients. In just the first 12 days of the year, Missouri hospitals admitted 1,065 people with COVID-19, and new admissions were averaging 116 per day over the previous week.

Heavy mucus was building in Ganime’s lungs, and Kuziez knew if he didn’t take action soon she would die.

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/coronavirus/2022-01-28/how-a-7-p-m-walmart-run-and-makeshift-icu-in-a-rural-missouri-hospital-saved-a-dying-patient

[sheshe2]

1. Thanks for posting, Sherman.

Thanks to the DR and nurses for their thinking outside the box. They saved her life.

[crickets]

2. Thank goodness for doctors like Kuziez. K&R

[dalton99a]

3. Kick

[roamer65]

4. All thanks to unvaccinated covidiots.

[lostnfound]

5. What an excellent story nt

[haele]

6. I'm glad she survived...

But I'm furious to that the clinic had to go to such heroic lengths to save her life because COVIDiots can't entertain any purpose beyond their personal freedumb to be selfish pricks and tie up critical medical infrastructure with their stupid, self-distructive asses.
Stay home and take your ivermectin and hot Epson salt baths. Don't take beds from people who didn't try to infect themselves and community members.

Haele