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Salzburg clinics on the verge of collapse: Triage team is put together - four-year-old in intensive care

2021-11-17T04:28:27.708Z


In Austria there is an alarm and escalation in the clinics. The Salzburg State Clinics are already putting together a triage team.


In Austria there is an alarm and escalation in the clinics.

The Salzburg State Clinics are already putting together a triage team.

Salzburg - There is no end in sight.

The number of new corona infections in Austria is increasing massively.

The situation in the hospitals is already precarious.

In Upper Austria and Salzburg in particular, the intensive care units are full with Covid 19 patients.

More and more corona cases also have to be treated in the normal wards.

Most of the unvaccinated people occupy the beds.

A triage team is put together at the regional clinics in Salzburg.

That has to decide which patient will receive an intensive care bed.

Dramatic call for help - Salzburg state clinics threatened to be completely overloaded

The management of the Salzburger Landeskliniken (SALK) has now turned to the State of Salzburg with a dramatic appeal for help, as reported by the Austrian news agency APA.

In the clinics, the treatment of further patients according to current medical standards and standards of care can soon no longer be guaranteed.

An emergency situation threatens to arise in which intensive medical triages must be undertaken.

Several Austrian media reported on this "overload display".

The Salzburger Landeskliniken (SALK) have now nominated a six-person triage team consisting of five doctors from various fields - including an internist, an intensive care doctor and a palliative doctor - and a lawyer, SALK spokesman Wolfgang Fürweger told APA on Tuesday morning.

Video: triage in clinics - will vaccination status soon play a role?

Corona in Austria: escalation level 12

In the escalation level 12 that has been reached, 272 beds in the non-Covid area would currently be missing, from the next level "there is currently no sufficient medical staff available," the letter says.

And further: "We therefore urgently appeal to the political leaders to take the necessary measures to significantly reduce the number of infections."

In Austria, a nationwide lockdown for unvaccinated people did not come into force until Monday.

But there are already easing.

In Salzburg, rehabilitation facilities are to be closed as an immediate measure and, above all, patients are to be relocated from non-Covid areas who no longer need to be cared for in the hospital.

These patients would retain doctors and nurses.

Negotiations are also taking place with private clinics in order to undertake operations.

A Covid transfer station for corona patients, who are still positive, but no longer need to be cared for as comprehensively, should provide further relief.

A clinician describes the dramatic situation

in the

Salzburger Nachrichten

: “Every day there is an inhumane argument about whose patient can be operated on first.

The one with the tumor or the one with the broken heart. "

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Salzburg University Hospital is at the limit.

© TOBIAS STEINMAURER / imago

Salzburg: The youngest Covid intensive care patient is a four-year-old girl

A four-year-old girl is currently the youngest Covid patient in the Covid intensive care unit in Salzburg.

The child is being treated for the consequences of a Covid 19 infection, reports ORF Salzburg.

The four-year-old therefore suffers from the multi-organ inflammation "PIMS" - Pediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome - after a corona disease.

"PIMS" occurs occasionally in children weeks after a corona illness.

Cases are also known in Germany.

“Some children get this a few weeks after surviving a corona infection.

The syndrome is associated with a very high fever, cardiovascular problems and skin rash, ”explains Dr.

Florian Hoffmann, pediatric intensive care and emergency physician at the Hauner Children's Clinic, in conversation with

Merkur.de

.

Corona in Austria - incidence at 894.9

In Austria, 2,568 people infected with corona currently have to be treated in hospital, 458 of them in intensive care units.

In the past 24 hours, 10,363 more coronavirus cases have been recorded.

The 7-day incidence is 894.3 - in Salzburg, however, at 1,519.7, and in Upper Austria at 1,422.2.

The lowest values ​​are recorded in Vienna (493.3) and Burgenland (619.2).

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Source: merkur

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