Corona emergency care at risk | Inland

This is because the throughput of patients in hospitals is congesting now that the ICs and nursing wards are becoming full. As a result, patients remain in the emergency room and cannot access them anymore.

“ERs have an average of 10 to 15 beds,” explains NVSHA chairman David Baden. “If the emergency department becomes ‘congested’ because treated patients cannot continue to the intensive care unit or a nursing unit and the emergency beds are full, then it stops. Then the care that is necessary in sometimes life-threatening situations is impossible. ” Then an emergency department has to close and ambulances are sent to another hospital.

This has now happened at several hospitals. After a brief tour of the hospitals, Baden estimates that about a third of the emergency department has to declare admission stops more often. And certainly a third of the hospitals can just prevent this.

Baden also regrets that the NVSHA is no longer involved in the consultations about corona policy. That while the emergency services play a more important role than during the first wave. “We are now seeing a shift from ic to the ERs. Where the first wave mainly took place on the ICs, it is now mainly about the emergency services, ”says Baden. He is appealing to the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport and the OMT to involve the NVSHA again in developing corona measures.

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