In Styria, 65 patients required treatment in an intensive care unit on Tuesday, according to the Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft KAGes. “Here we have a moderate increase for two weeks,” said spokesman Reinhard Marczik. At the same time there is an “extreme increase” to now 328 Covid patients in the normal wards: “There has been a double increase in the same period.”
The postponement of predictable operations was announced on November 3rd: “The situation in the Styrian regional hospital is of course to be classified as critical from the day on which we were again forced to postpone elective treatments, that is for about three weeks,” says Marczik Situation. The Covid coordinators always have their hands full to ensure an intensive care bed in your region in an emergency: “Short-term juggling with capacities” has been part of the daily program for weeks. “There are never free intensive care beds” On average, 90 percent of all intensive care beds in the KAGes houses occupied – with or without a pandemic. “There are never ‘free intensive care beds’ – it is always at the expense of another patient”, as Marcik emphasized. In some cases, other wards or at least individual rooms – and thus beds – are closed on a daily basis in order to be able to move staff to where they are most urgently needed in the pandemic. This succeeds through increased coordination and coordination between the LKH and, if necessary, the regions. So-called “hard triage” – i.e. not being able to give someone with poorer chances of survival the best possible treatment – has so far been avoidable through enormous effort in coordination. “But we have to be aware that triage begins where there is a rejection of a medical referral,” concluded the spokesman.
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