A Nurse's Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis

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The stories told here are all grounded in reality, but we have changed names of patients (if mentioned) and identifying details so that no one can be recognized. Many of the individual patients described are typical of a large number of A&E attendees.

Occasionally, a story may draw upon a composite of different experiences from Louise’s career, to ensure patient confidentiality is upheld.

Louise Curtis is a pseudonym.

A woman in her forties lay before me. She was struggling to breathe, she looked exhausted and her oxygen levels were dangerously low. Fifteen minutes ago, she had been fine. Now, it was time for intensive care to get involved and for her to go on a ventilator. I knew that her chances of survival were growing less with each passing moment. I’d heard about the rapid deterioration in coronavirus patients, but this was the first time it had played out in front of me. I couldn’t help feeling responsible. Had I somehow brought about this series of events? The guilt was overwhelming.

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