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The capacity of the Stockholm intensive care unit has exploded.
This weekend, the occupancy rate at emergency hospitals was 101 percent, DN writes.
Now the threshold by which patients receive intensive care is being raised.
Photo: ROBIN LORENTZ-ALLARD
Stockholm Health Director Björn Eriksson.
At the beginning of this week, the occupancy in Stockholm’s intensive care was 99 percent. On Saturday, the capacity had peaked: with 164 of 162 occupied places, according to data that DN has read.
According to Björn Persson, manager of perioperative medicine and intensive care operations, PMI in Karolinska, the high occupancy rate in intensive care is exceptional and the situation is now worse than this spring.
– I have never experienced such high occupancy at the regional level, write in an email to DN
“The threshold for intensive care is raised”
He also writes to the newspaper that the threshold for all people who need intensive care is inadvertently raised.
Today, Stockholm Region Health and Medical Care Director Erik Eriksson has decided that medical care must move from staff mode to backup mode, the step before disaster mode, in order to handle the situation.
The new and higher level of preparedness is a clearer sign of how heavily the region is under pressure.
– It is because we assess, given the situation, that it is a correct emergency situation that gives us the conditions we need to be able to stay one step ahead and guarantee the need for emergency care that functions sustainably even during the pandemic, writes Björn Eriksson in an email to DN.
Close the children’s emergency department
The fact that the region has previously been in a staff situation has previously made it difficult to access national resources, says Johanna Sandwall, head of emergency preparedness at DN’s National Board of Health and Welfare.
The situation of tension in emergency care also has consequences for other care. Earlier this week, Karolinska announced that all non-emergency operations at Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital in Solna and Huddinge will be canceled until January 10.
Currently 75 planned pediatric surgeries have been canceled. In addition, the number of places of care is reduced and one emergency department of three is closed, a pediatrician at the hospital told Aftonbladet.
– This affects the sickest children in the country, says the doctor to Aftonbladet.
Photograph: Staffan Löwstedt / SvD / TT
Health workers care for a patient at IVA, Södertälje Hospital, in the Stockholm region.
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