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Half of GH virus patients in ICU | Click For Needs, Muscle Fiber - Fiber Muscle

Huge surge in Covid cases in nonGHMC areas; state reports 1,597 new positives   More than half the patients admitted for Covid19 treatment at Gandhi Hospital, the primary care centre of the government in Telangana for treating Coronavirus victims, are in the hospital's intensive care unit (ICU).   Figures released by the health department in its daily Covid19 bulletin for the day show that,on Wednesday 495 of the 896 patients in Gandhi were in the ICU. There were an additional 335 patients who have been placed on some form of assisted breathing system.   This set of 335 patients include those on supplementary oxygen supply, CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure), and BiPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure) machines. Both CPAP and BiPAP machines are not invasive and use masks placed on the patient's face unlike ventilators that are invasive and require a tube to be inserted into the patient's airway passage through the mouth. A CPAP machine is used...