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There are hardly any empty beds in the intensive care unit of the university hospital. However, those responsible are cautiously optimistic.
It will soon create additional space in the intensive care unit: hospital director Gregor Zünd at Tuesday’s press conference.
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There are 25 Covid patients on Tuesday And patemptin the intensive care unit Universitätsspitals, elf of these do not come from the canton of Zurich. Three Covid beds are still freeand a non-Covid bed. “Our house is full,” hospital director Gregor Zünd said at a news event on Tuesday.
However, the university hospital has sufficient capacity safe Zünd. That’s because the rest, no dringlichen Operations are down 15 percent. “This means we can deploy more nurses for Covid patients,” says Zünd. Additional space will soon be created in the intensive care unit. In general, the situation is relatively stable. If necessary, the hospital can continue to close the remaining interventions.
97 employees in isolation and quarantine
However, the staff situation remains challenging. 97 university hospital employees are in quarantine or have a crown. This number was already over 140. The university hospital is still in the process of hiring additional nurses, he says.me Dagmar Keller Lang, the director since Institutes for emergency medicine.
The university hospital already has more than double the number of corona patientsinside and patient treated in the intensive care unit as during the first wave in spring saysme Peter Steiger, deputy director of the Institute of Intensive Medicine. At the moment, patients are getting older again, increasing mortality. More than 60 percent of intensive care patients are over 60 years old. Half of the people who died in the university hospital from Corona were over 75 years old. «Age has a great influence»He saysme Steiger.
Criticisms of the WHO: “Remdesivir helps”
Steiger continues to treat Covid patients with the drug Remdesivir, although one new Studyis who dThis is considered ineffective. describes. «In our experience, it helps» He saysme Steiger. «You just have to administer it early enough in the course of the disease.» Steiger compares Remdesivir with a fire blanket. This is useful at the beginning of a fire. If the fire spreads, such a blanket would suffice. but no more.
“Do not hesitate. It will not be infected with us. “
Spitaldirektor Zünd called the people of Zurich in case of emergencies and health problemsnorth Hospital to search. «Do not hesitate. With us it is not infected.“Dagmar Keller Lang confirmed that there have been no infections in an emergency. «We are a bastion of security.»
On Monday, 400 corona patients were in all Zurich hospitals. That’s 29 more people than on Friday and a new record. 68 of those hospitalized are in intensive care (-2), 44 need ventilation (-3).
