Need to keep updated on patient care - ICU doctor at the Covid-19 frontlines

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CORONAVIRUS | With the Covid-19 pandemic wreaking havoc across the world, people are paying more attention than usual to intensive care units (ICU), where the worst-affected Covid-19 patients are placed. Dr Shanti Rudra Deva, a senior intensivist at Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL), explained that an intensivist is a specialist who provides comprehensive care for the critically ill. The critically ill often refers to a patient with failing organ systems and is at high risk of dying. Currently, she said, there are 25 intensivists in the Health Ministry practising in tertiary government hospitals while the others practise in the university and private hospitals. Under the Covid-19 pandemic, Shanti said intensivists were quickly aware that these were not the typical patients who are admitted with acute respiratory failure, though she clarified that not all patients admitted into the ICU …