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The situation in Austrian hospitals is getting worse. After Upper Austria was the first federal state to announce Tuesday that it would postpone planned interventions, there are similar plans in Vienna. “In the coming days” is to start postponing elective interventions, as Health Councilor Peter Hacker (SPÖ) said on Wednesday in the “morning newspaper” Ö1. This is to create space for the care of crown patients. Acute attention is not reduced.
“Right now we do not have 80 Covid-19 patients in intensive care units and in the next few days we will begin to reduce, postpone and postpone elective interventions,” Hacker said in the “Morgenjournal”. Elective interventions are interventions that can be planned, such as knee or hip operations or cataract interventions.
Less operations
Some of these operations are already being outsourced to private hospitals as part of a cooperation between the Vienna Health Association and private hospitals and religious orders, as explained by a spokesman for the APA Health Councilor. However, in the near future, the actual number of operations should start to decline. To what extent, the rapporteur could not say: “That depends on the development of the number of infections”.
The Vienna Health Association works with religious hospitals and private hospitals to ensure the care of coronavirus patients while maintaining normal operations for as long as possible. In addition to city hospitals, religious hospitals also care for Covid-19 patients. Private hospitals perform elective interventions. The postponement of predictable and non-urgent operations should only occur when the number of cases is very high, according to the presentation of the cooperation in early October.
Private hospitals intervene
“We are in a good position to have established a good cooperation with the private hospitals in Vienna, which can already take away many patients in addition to the ones we treat in our own hospitals, but as I said, in a few days we will start to change. we are still far from the critical size. The critical size depends on the development in the next two weeks, “said Councilor Hacker in the” Morgenjournal. “
Critical keyword size: According to the Hackers spokesperson, in Vienna there are around 1,000 normal beds available for the care of corona patients. There is also a contingent of a maximum of 320 intensive care beds.
In any case, acute care is not being reduced in hospitals. Of course, it could not be the case that one should cut back on very vital treatments, “if it is oncology, if they are stroke patients and other things,” emphasized the city council.
On the national holiday, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz warned: “The latest measure is a second blockade.” This will be necessary if the intensive care medicine is overloaded due to cases of corona.
“Sharp”. On Tuesday, the office of Green Health Minister Rudolf Anschober also warned: “If these (note: infection numbers) continue to develop as dynamically as the previous week, the situation may escalate rapidly.”
Small space. Experts Explain: Under normal conditions, that is, without a crown, 85 to 90% of intensive care beds are fully used. Many are not available for Covid emergencies.
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