If the pressure on the intensive care services remains moderate, the surge in contamination caused by the Delta variant of the coronavirus continues, with 21,000 new cases recorded on Friday. And with 330 new patients treated, 6,802 patients are currently hospitalized. A situation that is beginning to worry in hospitals, where it is time to organize to best face a potential fourth wave.
In his intensive care unit at Raymond-Poincaré hospital in Garches, Professor Djillali Annane has already thought about the organization of this summer in the event of a fourth wave at the hospital, because human resources will be lacking. ” From the moment when hospitalizations increase, there is generally a delay of ten days for there to be an impact on the intensive care services, “he recalls.
The importance of vaccination
“We fear a difficult second or third week in August,” he warns. “We have had several discussions in the service, for example between doctors, but also with our nurses, to ensure that the majority can take their rest and leave quickly, at a time when we have not yet decided. ‘impact in our services. “
But the professor tries to warn that, no, this wave in the hospital is not inevitable and can still be avoided, especially if the most contaminated age groups, namely adolescents and young adults, are vaccinate. In his department, the two patients in intensive care since early July are a 39-year-old man, unvaccinated, with no history, and another 53, who had received only one dose.
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