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8 patients with severe and severe gastric disease in Busan … Only 3 negative pressure intensive care beds left
Corona 19 second pandemic emergency
Journalist Choi Hye-gyu [email protected]
Entry: 2020-09-01 19:05:09Revision: 2020-09-01 19:14:35Published: 2020-09-01 19:18:03 (p. 2)
A negative pressure bed at Ulsan University Hospital where a Corona 19 patient is being treated. Yunhap news
The number of severely or seriously ill patients with Corona 19 in Korea recorded a three-digit number for the first time. The number of seriously ill patients in Busan also rose to eight, showing that there were only three beds available for critically ill patients.
According to the City of Busan on Day 1, eight of the 86 hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Busan are seriously or seriously ill. As the number of critically ill and seriously ill patients increased, patients were admitted to Busan National University Hospital (11), Dong-A University Hospital (2), Kosin University Hospital (1) and Busan Paik Hospital (1 ), as well as the Busan Medical Center (71), a hospital dedicated to infectious diseases. .
104 top triple digits of critically ill patients nationwide
Soaring 11.6 times in just two weeks
Staff shortages overlap with beds shortages
Stomach patients are those who breathe mechanically or use ECMO, an artificial cardiopulmonary device, while seriously ill patients can breathe on their own, but patients with low oxygen saturation due to symptoms such as pneumonia and receiving oxygen therapy.
There are 19 negative pressure beds for critically ill patients in Busan. Currently, there are 8 corona patients19 and 8 common patients, so there are only 3 beds available. It means that if there are more than 3 additional critically ill patients with Corona 19 at this time, the bed to send critically ill patients will be over.
Even if there are hospital beds, it can be difficult to insure staff due to a major’s refusal of medical treatment. A Busan city official said: “The intensive care unit needs a professional workforce who can care for critically ill patients, but this is not the case at the moment, but now that a lot of workforce fills the gap in the specialty. It seems that there is great difficulty managing the workforce in the hospital. “
Nationally, the number of patients with serious and serious illnesses is increasing rapidly. At 0 o’clock today, the number of severe and severe corona19 patients in Korea is 104, an increase of 25 from 79 the day before. It was shot 11.6 times in two weeks from nine people on the 18th of last month. This is the first time that seriously ill patients have gone into triple digits in the Corona 19 crisis in Korea.
Quarantine authorities see the increase in confirmed cases of the elderly, who are high-risk soldiers. Among 104, 86 (82.7%) were 60 years or older, followed by 13 of 50 years (12.5%) and 5 of 40 years (4.8%). When observing the presence or absence of an underlying disease, 65 people (62.5%) suffer from chronic diseases. One does not have an underlying disease and the remaining 38 are under investigation.
The rapid increase in critically ill patients is expected to continue for the time being. Joon-wook Kwon, deputy chief of the Central Defense Countermeasures Headquarters, said in a briefing that day, “more than 400 confirmed cases occurred around August 26, and if they become severe or severe after 7 to 10 days , there is a very high possibility that the size of the patients will increase until this Sunday. ” .
According to quarantine authorities, to date only 9 treatment beds for critical patients can be immediately entered in the metropolitan area and 43 in the nation. As of last month 30, there were 0 critically ill beds available in Gwangju, Daejeon, Gangwon, Jeonbuk and Jeonnam.
Tae-ho Yoon, head of Accident Control Headquarters, said in a briefing on the day: “Since last week, we have expanded 44 treatment beds for critically ill patients in the metropolitan area and are making efforts to expand them in real time”. He asked for support for the treatment of critically ill patients with Corona 19. “
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