Triumph and Sadness

The COVID-19 outbreak has produced an odd mix of triumph and sadness. The success of the pandemic has
metaphorically brought humanity together like nothing else in modern history. By discovering solutions to
local concerns such as labor and resource constraints, the worldwide community has banded together to
deliver the best possible patient care while also protecting health-care workers. Priorities in research have
switched to fast testing new treatments, developing a vaccine, and establishing "best practices" for COVID-
19 patient management. Doctors and other healthcare practitioners are speaking with one another
because the electronic health record is temporarily inaccessible. New clinical discoveries and stories about
how individuals and healthcare institutions are improvising in the midst of disaster abound in the
discussion.

Thanks to social media, many municipalities, companies, and organizations have teamed together to
distribute personal protective equipment (PPE) to front-line healthcare workers. Infected hospitalized
people aged 80 and up have a survival rate of less than 15%, according to data, and survivors typically need
more than three weeks of mechanical breathing and a long stay in the hospital (Cummings et al. 2020).
Only 25% of older patients regain to their pre-critical illness level of functioning, according to pre-COVID-19
long-term post-critical illness follow-up studies, while 25% experience a substantial decrease in their
quality of life and functional status, and the remainder die (Heyland et al. 2016a). Although longitudinal
outcomes data from COVID-19-related severe illness survivors are not currently available, given the
extended nature of the illness, they are anticipated to become available in the future.

While death is heartbreaking, the saddest part is dying (or surviving) in a way that is personally
unacceptable. We talk about how the COVID-19 pandemic has hampered decision-making for older people
with critical illnesses by acting as a barrier to timely and effective communication (no communication,
insufficient communication, and ineffective communication), as well as how the COVID-19 pandemic has
hampered decision-making for older people with critical illnesses by acting as a barrier to timely and
effective communication (no communication, insufficient communication, and ineffective communication).
When caring for critically ill patients with COVID-19 disease, clustering care, keeping personal protection
equipment, minimizing interactions with patients, and barring visitors into an ICU have all been advocated.
These practices are designed to protect healthcare personnel while also minimizing SARS-CoV-2 viral
transmission. The unintended consequences have yet to be revealed. On the other side, communication
between the healthcare team and families may be weak.

Examining the consequences of poor communication prior to the implementation of COVID may aid in
determining the scope of the problem. Older hospitalized patients, for example, were polled to identify
their CPR values and preferences, which were then compared against CPR orders in the medical chart
(Heyland et al. 2016b). The chart said that the patient was given CPR when the patient did not choose it 35
percent of the time, and this inaccuracy rate ranged from 14 to 82 percent of the hospitals studied. These
findings suggest that older people may have received life-saving therapy (CPR) that they did not want.
Fortunately, fate brings triumph and sorrow together at a fork in the path. When the COVID-19 pandemic
Ness Acelle B. Cruz
Grade 12- tvl A
09-28-21
is over, perhaps the exercise in masking and physical separation will stoke and sustain a collective yearning
for human connection, where we seize opportunities to build bridges, not silos, to enrich our lives through
meaningful interactions with our families, colleagues, and communities. The outbreak gives us a chance to
think outside the box in order to prevent disasters.

Key Points

 The COVID-19 epidemic has bringing combined victory and sadness.

 Poor communication has a poor impact on decision-making, which can lead to an overuse of ICU
services for the elderly.
 During the COVID-19 pandemic, quarantine, stringent hospital isolation, and the prohibition of
hospital visits were all used with the goal of limiting disease spread. However, the fault lines from
the pre-COVID era's fragmented communication may worsen during the COVID-19 pandemic,
resulting in unexpected outcomes like as poor decision-making and possibly inappropriate resource
utilization.

Ness Acelle B. Cruz

Grade 12- tvl A
09-28-21