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While coronavirus infections continue to increase in Italy, the saturation of resuscitation rooms is monitored, including intensive and sub-intensive therapies, which have also made a leap forward. According to the last bulletin of yesterday, Sunday, October 11, 420 places were occupied nationwide, with an increase of 30 units compared to the previous day. Without comparison with the situation that had arisen last March, when the epidemic broke out in our country. However, we must not lower our guard. “If the trend in Sars-CoV-2 infection cases continues with current rates and numbers, and without further containment measures, we estimate that in less than a month intensive therapies in the Center-South, especially in Lazio and Campania, they can go into suffering in terms of available beds “, the president of theAssociation of Italian Hospital Resuscitators (Aaroi-Emac), Alessandro Vergallo. But what is the current situation?
In Italy, 7 out of 100 beds are occupied by Covid patients
As reported by the Corriere della Sera, an increase of 3,553 places in intensive care has been planned nationwide compared to the initial 5,179, reports the Ministry of Health. To these are added another 4,225 of semi-intensive therapy, half of which can be converted to critically ill patients. But to date, the plan is not complete. The government also said 38 percent of planned beds have been activated, but without providing regional details. Therefore, Italians have at their disposal 6,529 resuscitation beds of the 8,732 planned for departure. As of yesterday, again according to the calculations of the newspaper in via Solferino, the saturation in the entire peninsula was 7.4 percent, like Altems, the Higher School of Economics and Health Systems Management of the Catholic University, in the last report calculates both the total beds available pre-Covid and the places that we will have in the future. Seven out of every 100 beds for seriously ill patients are occupied by infected people, but the rest are not all free and partly accommodate people with other pathologies.
The situation region by region
And the Aosta Valley the black mesh region, with 30% saturation taking into account the pre-emergency beds (90% in March), followed by Campania, with 18.2 percent, since unlike last spring, Covid-19 cases have skyrocketed, and since Sardinia with 16 percent of the beds occupied, compared to 11 seven months ago. Fourth is the Liguria with 14.4 percent, still far from the 81 percent of the past, and then Lombardy, which went from 122 percent in March / April last year to 5.6 percent yesterday. More or less, the same percentages are also in Piedmont, went from 86 to 7.3, and in Veneto from 48 to 4.9. Molise, Basilicata me Autonomous province of Trento they are still at zero. What has changed in the last few months? “We oscillate between 7 and 15 percent of patients who end up in intensive care – explained Vice President Antonello Giarratano – finally. The disease has not changedBut those infected are younger, so they are less likely to get worse and follow-up is more effective. “
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