COVID-19 patients a day being treated by the medical team inside the ICU at the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM).
The number has dropped significantly compared to the daily average of the virus’s first wave — a lot due to new knowledge of coronavirus and how to care for patients.The director of CHUM’s ICU, Dr.
Jean-François Lisé, told Global News that patients aren’t immediately put on ventilators or put into medically induced comas.
And the anti-inflammatory drug, dexamethasone, is commonly administered to patients suffering from coronavirus.“This is the only drug at the moment that’s been shown to change the mortality of patients in the ICU,” Dr.