A pandemic that has changed our lives.

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As you all know, for several months now we have been fighting a pandemic that has brought many changes to our Hospital and to the people who keep it alive.
It has changed us from the tools of operation, such as the criteria for admission or the gear of hospital services, to the lives of professionals, such as care schedules and how to deal with our personal day to day… us it has changed lives.

It can be said that the entire Hospital has become COVID-19.

The professionals who care for these patients have left their families, secondly, to devote all their strength and experience to helping the sick. Many, even weeks ago, packed their bags and left home, leaving parents, children and partners, to avoid bringing the infection to family or peers.

Others, by age, were listed as a COVID-19 at-risk person and stayed to help with whatever was needed, either by carrying a sample container on the way to a meeting or by taking their private vehicle to carry a paracetamol command needed.

We have seen operating room professionals adapt to the ICU or the Emergency Department. The surgical or medical units became infectious experts. Everyone took courses on EPIs with Maria or the Begoña de Occupational Risk Prevention.

We were all learning about COVID-19 thanks to the Communication Taulí page and the Crisis Executive Committee who were posting the state of the emergency situation on the intranet every day. The enormous work that these professionals do by dismantling “fake news” and providing first-hand information to other colleagues. Every day we consulted the information they provided to know the changes to be made in our daily interventions with patients. Always with the illusion of seeing that the number of people affected was lower than the day before.

Many working groups were created on social media. We learned from each other. You could find out what they were doing again at the Trias i Pujol, Dos de Maig, Sant Pau, Clínic or Arnau de Vilanova hospitals and you brought the news to your service that you knew another professional could adapt to their needs.

   Data came from the changes that the citizens were making. 

   We started to see pictures of streets or the Ronda Litoral empty during rush hour.

 

 

 

 

 

The heat of society also appeared, in the form of the invention of tools to make it easier for professionals on a daily basis.

Thus appeared the "ear protectors", transparent screens and masks of all shapes and fabrics.

The “Volunteers in solidarity masks / hats from Polinyà del Vallès”, “Santa Rita”, pizzzeria Il nuovo Sapore, Kirafranch (Dental Clinic), patient Leonor, neighbor Carme…







  

Networks of patients, volunteers and grandmothers who stood in front of the sewing machine to give us hats and even hijabs and hoods.

 

Respirators and tools have been invented to take advantage of existing material.

Each one according to their possibilities and abilities.

 

3D Labs Taulís

 

A dedicated drawing of some patients

 

Among all these changes, Home Hospitalization was also adapted to the needs of the Hospital.
We initially supported the units that were starting to have COCID-19 patients, bringing non-COVID-19 patients home to leave their beds free.
As the Hospital metamorphosed and became COVID-19 hospital we also became HaD -COVID-19 and stopped going out to design the Hotel Verdi hospital building.

 

 

 

Eva A. Sánchez Martos

Degree in Nursing from the UAB. I have a Masters in Cardiology and another in Vascular Surgery from the UB. I have trained as a researcher in II.SICarlos III and have led many research projects such as the EMIRTHAD study on therapeutic non-compliance. For thirty years I have been improving as a nurse. Twenty years ago I helped the birth of Home Hospitalization in Parc Taulí.

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