Coronavirus chaos in Brazil: Non-anesthesia intubation – Drugs running out

Scenes from battlefields unfold in Brazilian hospitals, where anesthesia drugs are needed to anesthetize patients with coronavirus, was running out.

The government is seeking urgent supply of supplies at a time when information indicates that they tie seriously ill people to their beds to intubate them without adequate anesthesia.

Health Minister Marcelo Keiroga said Brazil was in talks with Spain and other countries to secure emergency medicine.

Hospitals, he added, according to AMPE, are also struggling to get enough oxygen.

The picture across Brazil, one of the countries hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, is putting increasing international pressure on President Zaich Bolsonaro.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) says its “failed management” Brazil has caused thousands of deaths that could have been avoided and has created a humanitarian catastrophe that could have worsened further.

Brazil has recorded a total of 361,884 deaths from covid – 19 – the US alone has more – and 13,673,507 confirmed cases.

More Brazilians are dying of the virus every day than anywhere else in the world, with the largest country in South America registering another 3,560 deaths yesterday.

Bolsonaru is against lockdown and has held major events where he has appeared many times without a mask.

He only recently admitted that vaccines are a possible solution to the health crisis.

Brazilian hospitals are struggling to cope.

Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have both sounded the alarm about anesthetic drug shortages, and the Sao Paulo health minister has announced that the city has the capacity to care for the seriously ill from COVID-19 are on the verge of collapse.

“I never imagined I would live like this after 20 years of working in the ICU,” Aureo do Carmo Filio, an Rio-based intensivist, told Reuters.

“Using mechanical support without anesthesia is a bad practice. The patient is subjected to some form of torture,” he said.

Severe COVID-19 sufferers who are struggling to breathe are sedated to a respirator, a penetrating practice to which the body normally responds.

With ICU beds close to or within their nationwide capacity, Hospitals are often forced to set up makeshift ICU beds, who often lack equipment or professional knowledge.

The Globo television network broadcast on Wednesday that patients in a Rio hospital they were intubated without anesthetic, but tied to their beds.

Albert Schweitzer Hospital, through the Rio City Press Office that manages it, announced that there is a shortage of anesthetic drugs for intubation but that substitutes are being used to ensure that medical care is not sacrificed.

He added that mechanical restrictions are only used on medical orders.

The city of Rio announced that a batch of drugs for intubation was to arrive on Thursday.

Sao Paulo attributed the shortage to the federal government. “The irresponsibility and neglect of the Brazilians is unbelievable,” Sao Paulo Governor Joao Doria wrote on Twitter.

“Failed management”

Médecins Sans Frontières complains that the Bolsonaro government did not do enough to prevent the tragedy.

“More than a year since the pandemic began, the failed management of the government has caused a humanitarian catastrophe,” said Christos Christou, MD and MSF president.

“Every week there is another sad record of deaths and cases hospitals it is overcrowded and there is still no coordinated central response, “he added while briefing reporters, noting that the situation is expected to worsen further in the coming weeks.

Bolsonaru has openly opposed local authorities calling for the crackdown, saying Brazilians need to get on with their normal lives and that layoffs are more dangerous than the virus.

The general manager of the NGO Mini Nikolai stated that the increase in cases cannot be attributed only to the most contagious Brazilian variant of the virus, known as P.1. “P.1 variant is clearly a problem, but that does not explain the situation in Brazil,” he says.