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The consultant neurologists have a bad morning

COVID comes to neurology

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