Hospitales al límite por la gripe in Barcelona in Spain
El virus descompensa a miles de enfermos crónicos, sobre todo octogenarios
Vida| 29/02/2012 - 00:35h
Hospitals to limit flu in Barcelona in Spain
The virus decompensation thousands of chronically ill patients, especially octogenarians
Life | 29/02/2012 - 00:35 pm
The virus decompensation thousands of chronically ill patients, especially octogenarians
Life | 29/02/2012 - 00:35 pm
As every year, but several weeks later than usual, the flu has decompensated thousands of chronically ill, especially the elderly, and has led to overstretched hospitals in Catalonia.
"One, two ... eight ... I count sixteen beds here in the middle", is heard saying to a member of the clinical staff of Bellvitge through your mobile. Talk of older patients who yesterday afternoon occupied spaces adjacent to the emergency room because the cubicles and interior corridors were packed. A lack of beds for the cuts? "Not at all. It's the flu each year. Last year and the last and the last four spent exactly the same," says the coordinator of Bellvitge emergency physician, Dr. Ignasi Bardés, which yesterday saw him coming to your door sixty patients in just three hours.
Catalonia is suffering the flu epidemic with more cases since 2000. The virus this year has been very prevalent among children and high mortality in the elderly, according to La Vanguardia yesterday advanced. The flu was at its peak last week, "after a few days, patients with chronic heart failure and respiratory diseases and various added the hatch and decompensate. It is they who are filling the emergency room, because both serious cancer patients or infections such as surgical and trauma are unchanged even say that with less people than usual, "says Bardés.
These patients, however, come with many of its weaknesses very upset, all at once. "Once tested and treated, often spend many hours, ten, twelve, until stabilization is achieved, and even then you can decide whether to enter, if they go home, if they stay or observation unit will short stay, "the emergency coordinator de Bellvitge. "So we have patients at the roundabout. Visually it is stressful, particularly for families, but we can not get them out of here until they are stabilized. And have so many it makes sense to accumulate."
The Department of Health acknowledges that the activity is very high: "Every year hospitals go through a peak of activity but this year," says Josep Maria Argimon, head of comprehensive emergency plan. The union yesterday called SATs nursing attention to what he considered an emergency breakdown and an untenable situation with patients remaining hours in the corridors and days waiting to be admitted because of the closure of beds. They cited cases of Bellvitge, Hospital Clínic and Can Ruti. In the latter hospital say that the worst of the flu noticed it two weeks ago, when they reached 350 cases a day when the average is 285, but last week and the beginning of this pressure was down a little. Sources say the center opened about twenty beds in the closed, as provided in the plan of flu.
Vall d'Hebron in the campaign of flu has forced open 113 extra beds, almost 10% of hospital capacity, which remained closed. As in Bellvitge, life-threatening emergencies and have not grown milder, but the call level 3, which are destabilized chronically ill from the flu, has grown by 50% in recent weeks of an epidemic. And half of these patients with respiratory infections and flu has over 80 years.
The Clinic's emergency were to stop, like all others, "but not collapsed. Patients Level 3, which is the most affected by flu meets, receiving care in three hours on average, even in times of accumulation some have waited five hours, "said a spokesman for the Clinic.
In the Hospital Sant Joan de Deu, where he arrived the other major group of flu victims, the youngest, say the situation is similar to the flu from other years, there is no collapse in its emergency room, but increased those affected by respiratory problems such as playing in every flu epidemic. The swine flu virus, A (H1N1) that caused the pandemic, is missing. The flowing is on any other virus, the H3.
"One, two ... eight ... I count sixteen beds here in the middle", is heard saying to a member of the clinical staff of Bellvitge through your mobile. Talk of older patients who yesterday afternoon occupied spaces adjacent to the emergency room because the cubicles and interior corridors were packed. A lack of beds for the cuts? "Not at all. It's the flu each year. Last year and the last and the last four spent exactly the same," says the coordinator of Bellvitge emergency physician, Dr. Ignasi Bardés, which yesterday saw him coming to your door sixty patients in just three hours.
Catalonia is suffering the flu epidemic with more cases since 2000. The virus this year has been very prevalent among children and high mortality in the elderly, according to La Vanguardia yesterday advanced. The flu was at its peak last week, "after a few days, patients with chronic heart failure and respiratory diseases and various added the hatch and decompensate. It is they who are filling the emergency room, because both serious cancer patients or infections such as surgical and trauma are unchanged even say that with less people than usual, "says Bardés.
These patients, however, come with many of its weaknesses very upset, all at once. "Once tested and treated, often spend many hours, ten, twelve, until stabilization is achieved, and even then you can decide whether to enter, if they go home, if they stay or observation unit will short stay, "the emergency coordinator de Bellvitge. "So we have patients at the roundabout. Visually it is stressful, particularly for families, but we can not get them out of here until they are stabilized. And have so many it makes sense to accumulate."
The Department of Health acknowledges that the activity is very high: "Every year hospitals go through a peak of activity but this year," says Josep Maria Argimon, head of comprehensive emergency plan. The union yesterday called SATs nursing attention to what he considered an emergency breakdown and an untenable situation with patients remaining hours in the corridors and days waiting to be admitted because of the closure of beds. They cited cases of Bellvitge, Hospital Clínic and Can Ruti. In the latter hospital say that the worst of the flu noticed it two weeks ago, when they reached 350 cases a day when the average is 285, but last week and the beginning of this pressure was down a little. Sources say the center opened about twenty beds in the closed, as provided in the plan of flu.
Vall d'Hebron in the campaign of flu has forced open 113 extra beds, almost 10% of hospital capacity, which remained closed. As in Bellvitge, life-threatening emergencies and have not grown milder, but the call level 3, which are destabilized chronically ill from the flu, has grown by 50% in recent weeks of an epidemic. And half of these patients with respiratory infections and flu has over 80 years.
The Clinic's emergency were to stop, like all others, "but not collapsed. Patients Level 3, which is the most affected by flu meets, receiving care in three hours on average, even in times of accumulation some have waited five hours, "said a spokesman for the Clinic.
In the Hospital Sant Joan de Deu, where he arrived the other major group of flu victims, the youngest, say the situation is similar to the flu from other years, there is no collapse in its emergency room, but increased those affected by respiratory problems such as playing in every flu epidemic. The swine flu virus, A (H1N1) that caused the pandemic, is missing. The flowing is on any other virus, the H3.
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