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Since March 1, 113 patient transports have been used to relocate severe coronary patients due to lack of space. This shows a review that Sweden Radio has carried out with statistics from the Swedish Intensive Care Registry. Relocators have sometimes been within the region, but also in nearby regions or more distant hospitals.
– Arranging the transport of seriously ill, often seriously obese, patients is not an ambulance transport. There is an incredible amount of preparation and it is risky to transport these patients, says Karin Frisell, chief physician and VAT medical officer at Mälar Hospital. Swedish radio.
Mälar Hospital in Eskilstuna has sent about 20 patients to other regions. The Nyköping and Eskilstuna hospitals have carried out 30 transfers of intensive care patients with corona disease from the Sörmland region. For the Stockholm region, there are around 40 movements.
Study shows mortality is increasing
Fredric Parenmark is Chief Physician at Gävle Hospital. He is one of the people behind the study that shows that intensive care patients who have to be transferred due to lack of space or other resources have a higher risk of dying.
– It is serious that patients have to be transferred. What we can see is that they are generally very fragile in their breathing and if you move them in an ambulance or helicopter there is a risk of complications, of course, says Fredric Parenmark to Swedish Radio.
The Minister for Social Affairs trusts the profession.
The Swedish radio review shows that mortality increases by 24% when transferring patients with VAT. Social Affairs Minister Lena Hallengren was asked in the SVT morning study on how to make sure that number does not rise and why it appears she is transferring patients with VAT.
– I do not know exactly. I assume that medical evaluations are always done as to what is necessary and appropriate. I must leave that question to the profession. It is clear that it is important to provide all the care that is needed, in the best possible way, since the care is very stressed. But I can’t answer why you do that, says Social Affairs Minister Lena Hallengren.
