A group of top London hospitals at the forefront of the battle against Coronavirus have warned that medical establishments are about ‘to run out of essential drugs’ to look after intensive care patients.
King’s Health Partners, an academic health science centre made up of three NHS foundation trusts, is one of nine European medical centres that sounded the alarm on Tuesday.
To manage the most severe cases of Covid-19, resuscitators have to immerse the patients in an artificial coma, and intubate them.
They use powerful drugs to this, such as Curare and Propofol, and these are the ones that are rapidly disappearing. Follow the latest coronavirus updates in our live blog In a letter to their respective governments leaked to Le Monde