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Mar 2020
28m 44s

Covid-19 Intensive Care Beds; Ibuprofen;...

Bbc Radio 4
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The UK has one of the lowest numbers of critical care beds in Europe but as the coronavirus threatens to engulf us, drastic measures are being taken to increase capacity. Dean of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, Dr Alison Pittard, tells Saleyha that the NHS has been asked to plan for doubling, trebling and then quadrupling the number of critical care ... Show More
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