Is it possible to care for a Covid-19 patient at home? Hyderabad's Dr. Sanjeev Kumar has the answer.
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00:00Today, if some positive patients have come to people's homes and they are scared about how to treat them at home
00:10or if they have to go to the hospital for treatment and they are not getting beds in the hospital
00:14then I will show you in 2 minutes how to take care of these people at home
00:20I am Dr. Sanjeev Kumar from Sunshine Hospital, Gachiboli
00:26Oxygen saturation is 100%
00:29If the oxygen saturation is less than 90% then these patients are sick
00:32If the oxygen saturation is more than 90% then there is nothing to worry about
00:35I waited so long because the pulse oximeter takes about 30 seconds to show normal oxygen saturation
00:42Now, suppose these people are on oxygen saturation less than 90%
00:45and they are being taken to the hospital facility but they are not getting beds, then what should we do?
00:51We will prepare one more section of our house for sick patients
00:56whose entry will not be entered by normal people
01:01and we will isolate these people for 14 days
01:04Suppose, if this is the patient and I have to take care of him
01:09then I will tell you very important things
01:12Whenever you will go to this room
01:15So, you will wear a big cloth or any gown so that your clothes do not get infected
01:24Wear a mask over the gown
01:31After wearing the gown, this whole area is covered
01:34Then you can apply a normal mask or N95 mask on it
01:40Keep in mind that do not touch the mask with your hand
01:45Sterilize it after touching it
01:47Do not apply it in the eyes
01:48You can use a simple mask but discard it daily
01:52Now, because this is an infected zone, there are plastic shields available in the market
01:58If you apply this, your secretions will not go out
02:02Similarly, this patient will also wear a mask and put a shield
02:07What will happen with this?
02:09His secretions and your secretions cannot be found
02:13The chance of infection is very low
02:16If you want to spend time with this person
02:19then according to social distancing, do not spend more than 5 minutes
02:25Give them disposable food
02:30As I said earlier, you can give everything in food
02:33Now, while taking care of these people
02:35Remember that they will use hand sanitizers or soap a lot
02:41Apart from this, whenever you serve these people
02:45then you will use gloves
02:50Touch the patient only after wearing the gloves
02:55If these people are using home-made clothes
02:59then they will be washed after going out
03:03If they are using disposable clothes
03:05then they will be thrown away after using it every time
03:08Now, if you take care of that patient in this condition
03:12give him food, apply oxygen
03:16or whatever you are doing, the chance of infection is less
03:20Now, suppose I checked the oxygen saturation of this patient
03:24and it was less than 90
03:27I applied the pulse oximeter
03:29and left it
03:32This patient is having fever and his oxygen is also less
03:35So, what will I do?
03:36I will keep applying the pulse oximeter
03:38and such a cylinder is available in the market
03:41It is refilled for Rs. 400 per month
03:46There is a knob in this
03:48If you turn this knob on
03:51it shows the liters
03:54Generally, on 5 liters
03:56whenever it happens
03:57we can apply such small nasal prongs to the patient
04:07We can apply such nasal prongs
04:09After applying the nasal prongs
04:11see the reading of the pulse oximeter
04:14If it is not more than 90
04:16and the patient is still having fever
04:18then you can remove this nasal prong
04:20and buy this big mask from the market
04:24If you apply this mask on the cylinder
04:27then oxygen can be given to a patient up to 10 liters
04:30Then you check the oxygen
04:31Wait for 5 minutes after giving oxygen
04:33Even after this, if the oxygen is not improving
04:36then you have the last option
04:38High Flow Oxygen Mask
04:40This mask is attached with a balloon
04:43As soon as we connect it with oxygen
04:45it gives extra oxygen
04:51In this, you can fill up to 15 liters of oxygen
04:56After filling this balloon
04:58when you apply it
05:00the patient's fever or oxygen saturation improves
05:03After applying this
05:05you keep checking the saturation
05:07When it is above 90, leave it as it is
05:10During the day, these people can wear the mask for 3 to 4 hours
05:14and as soon as they start having fever
05:16they can wear a small mask
05:18If possible
05:20keep the bed height a little higher while sleeping
05:24For the safety of this room
05:27so that the infection does not go out
05:29use home-made phenyl or any antiseptic solution
05:32to clean the house
05:34When you come out of this room
05:36the first thing you have to do
05:38is to remove the mask and throw it away in 10 days
05:41and do not go out with this gown
05:43After removing the gown
05:46leave the mask and shields in the same room
05:52wash your hands
05:54wash your hands completely
05:56and come out of this room
05:58If these people are served like this for 14 days
06:01then they improve