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Infectious disease doctor Adrian Marinescu, from the Matei Balș Institute, says that when it comes to intensive care units that treat patients with SARS-CoV-2, things are complicated, because the devices work at maximum capacity and are not calibrated for flows. so big.
“When we talk about intensive care units that take care of patients with Sars Cov 2 infections, things are more than complicated. They work at maximum capacity, doctors treat patients with critical forms, with an unpredictable evolution. They have to go dressed in special suits, they stay dressed for a long time in this way, the situation is very complicated. These are good weeks, that does not mean that at the beginning of the pandemic there were no patients “, says Dr. Adrian Marinescu, from the Matei Balş Institute .
Since March and especially since April, intensive therapies have worked more than intensely, but, says Dr. Marinescu, in recent weeks it has been more than that.
„But what has been happening in recent weeks is more than that. We have reached the point where there is no vacancy for days and days, it is clear that it is a complicated situation and not only in Matei Balş, this happens with all the intensive therapies that deal with Covid 19. They have always been before the pandemic of these oxygen facilities were used in intensive care. It was clear that any source of flame had a very high risk of explosion. too Pandemic overloading of these oxygen facilities occurs very frequently. The they were not calibrated for such high flow rates, and in SARS-CoV-2 infection, the patient has a very high need for oxygen ”, the doctor also said, quoted by Mediafax.
Dr. Adrian Marinescu says that this risk is also found in normal rooms and even higher in intensive care rooms. The facilities must be constantly monitored.
„Unfortunately, most hospitalized patients are seriously ill and need oxygen. There are solutions, these facilities must be constantly monitored, they must be technically monitored, they must be calibrated in such a way that they do not operate at their maximum capacity. This means that interventions must often be made to meet the needs of the pandemic. That is what we did at Matei Balş Institute. There is also a company that takes care of this, but the institute also monitors these things at clear intervals. There is an accreditation that involves, among other points, this aspect, which is why a careful monitoring is done because oxygen installations represent a high risk of causing an explosion, this is well known ”, added the doctor.
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