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An employee of the Intensive Care Unit at Stavanger University Hospital has been diagnosed with corona. The SUS is now on a yellow alert and seven employees have been quarantined. See the recording of the press release in the window above.
Helse Stavanger CEO Helle Schøyen said in a press release Tuesday that they still do not know the source of the employee’s infection.
– Since seven employees have now been quarantined, potential non-time critical intensive care unit admissions will go to Haugesund or Bergen. Since these seven are highly competent employees, we also need to consider whether the department can stay open this week. This is especially due to the fact that the department depends on it being open at night and on weekends, says Schøyen.
CEO Helle Schøyen at Helse Stavanger during Tuesday’s press release. Photo: Jon Ingemundsen
– Extraordinary measures
– An employee associated with the intensive care unit of the Stavanger University Hospital (SUS) was diagnosed with covid-19 on Monday, September 28. Extraordinary measures have been implemented, the SUS states in a press release.
The hospital has started the necessary measures for infection detection and quarantine, and is working to manage the operation. Close contacts are quarantined and tested. All affected patients and staff will be notified in more detail by the hospital.
Postponed operations
The planned operations have been postponed until Tuesday. Outpatient surgery in Hillevåg is performed as usual.
Readiness level has changed from green to yellow. This means that the situation must be handled with greater efforts / resources and extraordinary measures, stated in a SUS press release on Tuesday.
You can see the SUS press orientation in the recording above, or read the content in the text below.
Today at 10:54of Evid Aarre
An employee associated with the intensive care unit of the University Hospital of Stavanger (SUS) was diagnosed with covid-19 on Monday, September 28. Extraordinary measures have been implemented, the SUS states in a press release.
The hospital has started the necessary measures for infection detection and quarantine, and is working to manage the operation. Close contacts are quarantined and tested. All affected patients and staff will be notified in more detail by the hospital.
The planned operations have been postponed until Tuesday. Outpatient surgery in Hillevåg is performed as usual.
Readiness level has changed from green to yellow. This means that the situation must be handled with greater efforts / resources and extraordinary measures.
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Then the transmission is over. We thank you for the entourage.
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– Is there a high probability that the source of infection is in the SUS?
– Can’t be ruled out. There is a higher risk of infection now than a few weeks ago.
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– Do we know the origin of the infection in the two new cases?
– It’s a challenge, in some cases it will take some time to clear this up, says head of infection control Lars Kåre Kleppe at SUS.
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– No one has done anything wrong in this situation, says head of infection control Lars Kåre Kleppe at SUS in the subsequent interview.
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– It may seem small with 7 employees, but these are highly competent staff, and we need to look at capacity overnight and on weekends to see if the department can continue to function.
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– What does this mean for daily operations?
– 7 employees are close contacts, so these are critical personnel for us. It may have something to do with the operation of the intensive care unit this week.
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– How many samples have been taken in relation to the case of infection?
– 23 employees were tested and none were positive. We tested more throughout the day.
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– Two in SUS infected. How many are affected by the cases?
– We are working to get an overview of how many patients can be considered close contacts. I don’t want to come up with numbers, because we are in the mapping phase. We want a better overview during the day.
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Then, the joint briefing ends and Aftenbladet will have a one-on-one interview with Helle Schøyen and the head of infection control, Lars Kåre Kleppe. We follow this.
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The employee was at work Thursday and Friday and had symptoms on Saturday.
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Schøyen: – The employee is well in accordance with the conditions and is isolated at home.
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SUS will not comment on the employee’s position here, except to say that it is the intensive care unit.
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– We have not completely emptied the intensive care unit. There are patients where it is not so urgent that they are redirected to Haugesund or Bergen. We don’t send anyone from the department.
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– This gives us the opportunity to be closer to the situation. We continually assess how emergency preparedness should be.
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– What does yellow preparation mean?
– We have increased awareness of the situation and established emergency preparedness.
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Schøyen: – We don’t know how the employee got infected. We are in permanent dialogue with the infected.
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Now it opens for questions.
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People should not come here if they have symptoms.
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Anyone who wants to visit it must think if they really need it.
