COVID comes to neurology
112,787 views • 3/29/2020
The consultant neurologists have a bad morning
| 00:00 - 00:03 | it's finally happened |
| 00:04 - 00:05 | the enemy is among us |
| 00:05 - 00:07 | COVID-19 has come to the QEUH |
| 00:08 - 00:12 | infiltrating the receiving complexes and general medicine |
| 00:12 - 00:15 | even the orthopods have seen a few cases |
| 00:17 - 00:19 | We're protected in neurology |
| 00:19 - 00:21 | in a separate building |
| 00:24 - 00:26 | my colleague |
| 00:27 - 00:28 | we're |
| 00:31 - 00:33 | We're being redeployed to general medicine |
| 00:34 - 00:36 | they want us to start tomorrow |
| 00:53 - 00:58 | FYs, clinical fellows, registrars out. consultants stay here |
| 01:13 - 01:15 | this is an outrage |
| 01:15 - 01:17 | what use are tendon hammers now |
| 01:18 - 01:23 | I may as well throw my tuning fork into the Clyde |
| 01:25 - 01:28 | all those years memorising muscle groups |
| 01:29 - 01:31 | perfecting fundoscopy |
| 01:31 - 01:34 | ordering complicated immunological tests |
| 01:34 - 01:37 | that no one else understands |
| 01:37 - 01:40 | All to waste on some virus |
| 01:40 - 01:42 | But it's a national emergency |
| 01:42 - 01:46 | Do you know where your stethoscope is?? |
| 01:46 - 01:48 | I've already bought a replacement off medisave |
| 01:48 - 01:52 | I don't want to hear about your shopping spree |
| 01:53 - 01:54 | We're all going to die |
| 01:56 - 01:57 | Do we even know anything |
| 01:57 - 02:00 | other than myesthenia and GBS |
| 02:00 - 02:03 | and maybe a bit on demyelination |
| 02:04 - 02:08 | what use is IVIG now |
| 02:08 - 02:13 | not even a bit of prednisolone |
| 02:14 - 02:16 | We can't use steroids against this virus |
| 02:17 - 02:21 | can any of you even remember cardio-resp physiology, frank-starling? |
| 02:27 - 02:29 | They kept on trying to explain NIV to me |
| 02:30 - 02:34 | It's got something to do with these lungs |
| 02:34 - 02:36 | filling them up a bit better |
| 02:41 - 02:42 | alveolar gradient, recruitment |
| 02:43 - 02:47 | who really understands what these mean |
| 02:48 - 02:53 | I swore I'd never do another ABG |
| 02:54 - 02:56 | after the mess I made last time |
| 02:56 - 02:59 | there was blood everywhere, over the patient, on my shoes |
| 03:00 - 03:02 | I got a needlestick |
| 03:04 - 03:07 | It's ok, he didn't contract anything |
| 03:14 - 03:16 | Who will look after the functional patients |
| 03:19 - 03:23 | the non-epileptic seizures |
| 03:25 - 03:26 | the tingly bits |
| 03:31 - 03:33 | we have to cancel the outpatient clinics |
| 03:40 - 03:46 | the medical students won't get teaching this year |
| 03:46 - 03:49 | not that they get spinal tracts anyway |
| 03:53 - 03:56 | may Charcot save us all |
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