Murray – The use of intensive care unit beds in all Utah hospitals is currently at 88%, while ICUs are at an all-time high, according to a report Monday from the state Department of Health. Beds Covid-1 patients occupy 92% in 16 Utah hospitals equipped for patient care.
The state’s coronavirus website states, “When 85% of capacity is reached, the Utah-staffed ICU will be operating out of bed, indicating filling the hospital system.”
Of the 545 patients admitted to the hospital with confirmed cases of Kovid-19, about 200 are being treated in the ICU, state health officials said.
“We have good care and our case-mortality rate is very low, but things change when we can’t take care of the patients we can handle,” said Dr. Todd Vento said. .
Vento said Utah hospitals are doing everything possible to curb emergency care standards.
“If we get to that step, it means we’ve failed,” Vento said. “We have failed as a community. We have failed all the way because we have not stopped transmission in our communities and it has come to our hospitals.”
The governor is tasked with authorizing the Emergency Care Guideline, which states: “To meet the ‘Greatest for Great Numbers’ goal, ICU / ventilator care needs to focus more on those who are most likely to benefit from it.” “
So far, hospitals have moved towards the challenge, said Greg Bell, president of the Utah Hospitals Association. “If we continue to get these numbers, we’ll just start making some tough decisions,” Bell said.
Patients are concerned about the possibility of a surge as the number of cases admitted to the hospital is a few weeks behind schedule. Belle said it remains to be seen what the outcome of the daily, 50,000 to 20,000,000 daily cases will be.
Bell said, “Because what we’re seeing now was based on 1,500 to 2,200 cases a day.
“The bottom line is that we’re still broadcasting a lot of COVID in communities,” Vento said.
Vento said Utahns could help protect the hospital system from not gathering over Thanksgiving.
“This is the time to really listen to public health experts and say, ‘We can prevent terrible December and January by not doing what we normally would do.’
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