[ad_1]
AHUS: The main department of the Akershus University Hospital is located in Lørenskog. Photo: Tore Kristiansen, VG
Pressure from the crown and other advances in the intensive care unit mean that Akershus University Hospital (Ahus) in Nordbyhagen in Lørenskog is reducing the number of operations before Christmas, the hospital states in a press release.
Patients who have their operations postponed should be notified.
– It is the combination of covid patients who need intensive care and the influx of other patients who need intensive care and monitoring that makes us feel compelled to do this now in the days until Christmas. If you run a full operational program, you also overload the monitoring capacity after operations, CEO Øystein Mæland tells VG.
The hospital director cannot estimate how many people the planned operations will be postponed, but emphasizes that all immediate help, in addition to cancer treatment, outpatient surgery and outpatient evaluation and treatment, will continue as normal.
HOSPITAL DIRECTOR: Øystein Mæland is the managing director of Ahus. Photo: Ole Berg-Rusten, NTB
– It is the total intensive load that forces us to do this. It is not the case that we have a strong influx of several critically ill covid patients. Today there are five in intensive care with us at Nordbyhagen, and it’s been a good time. There haven’t been many more covid patients in recent days. There is a couple who are in intensive care who are unclear, which means we don’t have reliable answers yet, but it is the sum of covid and others that makes us have to do this, says Mæland.
The hospital will reassess the situation immediately after the Christmas and New Years weekend.
also read
Ahus on the first phase crown: – He was on the verge of pain
There are currently 27 crown patients admitted to the hospital, which have the highest number of crown patients in Norwegian hospitals.
Oslo University Hospital has the second highest number with 23 hospitalized corona patients.
A total of 127 corona patients are now admitted to Norwegian hospitals, according to VG’s corona special. 33 of them receive intensive care.
22 patients with a crown are connected to a ventilator.
On Saturday, it was revealed that three patients and four employees had tested positive for COVID-19 in Ahus’s lung department.
– Actually, it’s a bit further back last week, so things are normalized. It is under full control and people are returning to work, says the director of the Mæland hospital.
