Every day more dead and more sick from the Covid-19 to resuscitate. And every day the challenge of finding new resuscitation beds with the medical staff accordingly. The load shedding of patients to the province, combined with the arrival of external reinforcements allow the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Ile-de-France to announce a capacity of 300 additional beds in the coming days.
These beds are first of all those that the first 48 patients transferred since Wednesday by medicalized TGV (and soon by helicopter) to the Brittany and Center-Val-de-Loire, or Normandy regions, thanks to the help of a multitude of players , the samus, the Army health service, the General Directorate of Health, the ARS, the SNCF…
More than 2,000 patients in intensive care in Ile-de-France
Patients are treated in hospitals which still have reception capacities. "We have never seen all these people get along in 48 hours to transfer patients to the four corners of France," said an observer. Regulation, which usually took place between hospitals in the same region, is now done on a national scale.
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This choice was constrained by the growing influx of very serious Covid-19 patients. There were 2327 patients in intensive care this Thursday, 100 more than the day before, and 1601 died. Ile-de-France concentrates more than a third of patients hospitalized in intensive care in France.
The arrival of some 200 reinforcing caregivers - mainly nurse anesthetists and resuscitators - from this Thursday, should allow to further increase this capacity in resuscitation beds. A hundred should arrive by tomorrow, to which is added, fifty others this weekend.
Towards a capacity of 3000 beds
"These reinforcements will first go to the north of Ile-de-France, which is more affected," explains a Paris emergency doctor. These doctors and nurses arrived from provincial hospitals will open 200 additional beds. Added to patient transfers, this will increase the capacity of available beds by 300 places, or nearly 3000 beds in total. Recall that the Ile-de-France had before the epidemic had 1200 resuscitation beds. "The entire Ile-de-France region is mobilized and is reaching the end of its capabilities," summarizes the ARS.
Will these reinforcements be able to register over time? How long will the other Samu in France be preserved enough in their own region to help their Ile-de-France colleagues? And above all, when will the pandemic in Ile-de-France slow down? Many hope to find an answer to this crucial question from next week, in the light of the three weeks of confinement, and it is hoped that the number of new serious cases will decrease.
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The balance sheet in Ile-de-France on April 2
17,809 Covid patients (700 more than the day before)
2327 resuscitation patients in Ile-de-France
1,601 deaths
2 to 4 weeks. It is the duration of hospitalization in intensive care for patients with Covid
5% of patients require hospitalization
60 years is the median age of hospital patients, that is to say that half are younger, the other half, older.
Source: ARS Ile-de-France
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