For patients with covid, being put on a ventilator amounts to a death sentence. Or does it?
RT's Anton Krasovsky goes into the ICU at Tver Regional Clinical Hospital and visits patients who made it. A healthcare professional demonstrates her intubated yoga routine, a member of the Russian parliament chooses to be treated the same as her constituents, and the head of the hospital explains how his team manages to bring back from the brink those whose lungs have stopped working.
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00:00 Intro
1:02 Ambulance queue at the Regional Clinical Hospital in Tver
3:10 "There's no pulse whatsoever" [viewing not recommended for sensitive people]
3:34 Going into the "Red zone"
5:41 "Show me a thumbs up" - communicating with Covid-19 patients in the neurology department
6:38 Valerii, aged 45. 13 days on a ventilator.
7:59 "They talked about it on television. I thought it was all lies, and here I am"
8:51 How tocilizumab works
10:14 Anton, 41 [fitness fanatic]. 10 days on a ventilator
11:09 "If he'd come a day later, he wouldn't be going anywhere"
13:16 Anton explains how he fell ill with coronavirus
13:40 "Anyone can die. At any age. If they don't get the right treatment. "
14:18 The chief medical officer of Tver region's General Clinical Hospital talks about the situation with ill and recovered patients in the region
17:12 Ekaterina [emergency dispatcher] aged 65. 14 days on a ventilator
20:08 Elena [nurse] aged 55. 14 days on a ventilator
22:25 "I practised yoga, I meditated, I prayed" - Elena tells us how she got through her time on artificial ventilation
30:15 The chief medical officer of Tver region's General Clinical Hospital talks about PPE and ventilators
31:53 We talk to a member of the Russian parliament for Tver region who had covid
33:53 "You don't know whether you'll wake up tomorrow or not"
37:32 This is what the haematology department of Tver hospital looks like with Covid-19 patients
40:25 A doctor in the "red zone" explains how she works for six hours without drinking or going to the bathroom
44:45 "Are people dying with covid or because of covid?"
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