How are the bodies of diseased COVID-19 patients handled?
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wrote on 5 Apr 2020, 22:06 last edited by
What’s the protocol there?
Are bodies of diseased COVID-19 patients considered a high risk vector? For how long? -
What’s the protocol there?
Are bodies of diseased COVID-19 patients considered a high risk vector? For how long?wrote on 6 Apr 2020, 01:45 last edited by Jolly 4 Jun 2020, 01:45@Axtremus said in How are the bodies of diseased COVID-19 patients handled?:
What’s the protocol there?
Are bodies of diseased COVID-19 patients considered a high risk vector? For how long?High risk. If doing an autopsy (and it would be easier to throw a cat in a bathtub than to get an average path to post a known COVID patient), the lungs or body fluids would be infectious. I assume as long as you have fluids, you have potential for disease transmittal.
If I was going to make a guess, I'd say that the nurses pull the tubes, disinfect everything as much as possible, bag the body in a leakproof bag and the family cremates the body ASAP.
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wrote on 6 Apr 2020, 11:45 last edited by
Slightly off-topic.
the nurses pull the tubes
I never understood the thinking behind that, other than for aesthetics should the family want to see the deceased - I imagine seeing a froth-filled endotracheal tube and an NG tube full of black-ish stuff would be jarring.
Can you think of another reason?
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wrote on 6 Apr 2020, 11:57 last edited by
I don't have a clue. That's just the way I've generally seen it done.
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Slightly off-topic.
the nurses pull the tubes
I never understood the thinking behind that, other than for aesthetics should the family want to see the deceased - I imagine seeing a froth-filled endotracheal tube and an NG tube full of black-ish stuff would be jarring.
Can you think of another reason?
wrote on 6 Apr 2020, 15:00 last edited by@George-K said in How are the bodies of diseased COVID-19 patients handled?:
I imagine seeing a froth-filled endotracheal tube and an NG tube full of black-ish stuff would be jarring.
Hemophobia
Blood is scary
For some people
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wrote on 6 Apr 2020, 15:19 last edited by
Maybe clean up the tube a little, let them see the body through glass, the off to the crematorium.