PHILADELPHIA - As COVID cases rise and more people arrive at emergency rooms, hospitals are feeling the strain.“COVID is the worst thing I’ve ever seen in the hospital environment.
It’s devastating,” stated Registered Nurse Dylan Tooljian.Tooljian, an RN at local hospitals in Philadelphia and New Jersey, says he is tired.
He took time to share with FOX 29 and their viewers what it is like to have COVID-19 in the Intensive Care Unit.Being on a ventilator is only the start.“Have a machine attached to a tube that goes down your throat, down your windpipe, into your lungs.
It provides breaths for you. It’s not comfortable. It’s painful,” Tooljian described.To bring an ounce of comfort patients are sedated, Tooljian explains.