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Surge: An ICU Nurse on the Front Lines of Covid's Deadliest Days in NYC
Surge: An ICU Nurse on the Front Lines of Covid's Deadliest Days in NYC episodes
- 5 min
- 7. Failure
How can COVID-negative patients stay negative inside a hospital overrun with Coronavirus cases? Systemic problems in the hospital setting are nearly impossible to overcome at the height of the crisis, and the implications are deadly.
7 min - 6. Gasping for Air
The day of New York City's highest COVID death toll has arrived. In the ICU, patients inadvertently pull-out breathing tubes, alarms go unnoticed, and hastily trained medical staff continue their desperate battle against a disease they never signed up to fight.
10 min - 5. Saying Goodbye
Cheers of support. Intimate whispers of farewell. An otherwise stoic nurse is moved to the emotional brink.
12 min - 4. On Fire
She works at one of the top-tier hospitals in the country, but because of the strains Covid-19 is putting on the system, the hospital staff is losing hope and all that’s left is a sense of duty.
11 min - 3. Nothing You Can Do
Quality of care begins to suffer as cases overwhelm the hospital and caregivers are stretched thin. The consequences are tragic and deadly.
16 min - 2. At Capacity
Quality of care begins to suffer as cases overwhelm thehospital and caregivers are stretched thin. The consequences are tragic and deadly.
11 min - 1. Airborne
A cardio-thoracic ICU suddenly converts to a Covid-only unit,where the elite team of doctors and nurses caring for ventilated patients become repeatedly exposed to the deadly disease while grappling with resource shortages.
14 min
About Surge: An ICU Nurse on the Front Lines of Covid's Deadliest Days in NYC
From the publisher's feed
The 5-year anniversary reissue of the 2020 podcast chronicling the daily battles of an elite ICU nurse during the deadliest phase of NYC’s Covid pandemic (early April 2020).
The series was born from daily phone calls between the nurse and her friends—the producers—that became increasingly urgent, revealing stories the world needed to hear.
At the time of its initial broadcast, the unauthorized* first-hand accounts were unlike any other reporting on frontline caregivers swamped by caseloads and resource shortages.
*Unauthorized to speak publicly, the nurse and her hospital are not named