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Blue light crisis in the emergency room: people waiting order pizza while doctors next door fight for the patient's life

2022-10-17T04:48:13.236Z


Blue light crisis in the emergency room: people waiting order pizza while doctors next door fight for the patient's life Created: 2022-10-17 06:31 By: Andreas Beez The situation in the emergency rooms in and around Munich is tense (symbol photo). © PLETTENBERG Behind closed doors, rescue workers speak of a full-fledged Munich blue light crisis: In the emergency rooms of the clinics and in the


Blue light crisis in the emergency room: people waiting order pizza while doctors next door fight for the patient's life

Created: 2022-10-17 06:31

By: Andreas Beez

The situation in the emergency rooms in and around Munich is tense (symbol photo).

© PLETTENBERG

Behind closed doors, rescue workers speak of a full-fledged Munich blue light crisis: In the emergency rooms of the clinics and in the waiting areas, grotesque scenes sometimes play out.

Munich – Employees are insulted because the visitors don't go fast enough.

"Some people are just rude," an experienced specialist nurse tells our editorial team.

"Recently, a group even had pizza delivered to the emergency room while we had to revive a patient in the trauma room next door." He has never experienced anything like this in 30 years of service.

"But you can't even throw her out."

Munich: Some grotesque scenes take place in waiting areas of the emergency rooms

Such extreme situations are the outgrowths of a problematic trend that emergency physicians have been observing for months: emergency patients who need medical help really quickly are increasingly being joined by people who do not want to wait for an appointment with a resident doctor.

They prefer to put up with long waiting times – often knowing that the most important examinations and treatments are carried out immediately in an emergency room.

The problem is exacerbated by corona and other infections.

As a result, there are more patients and at the same time fewer staff.

This uncomfortable equation not only puts the clinics in trouble, but also many medical practices.

"The performance of the entire medical infrastructure is severely limited," confirm Prof. Viktoria Bogner-Flatz and Dr.

Dominik Hinzmann at the request of our editorial team.

Munich clinics in crisis mode: some stations have to be closed

The coordinators of the Munich rescue service currently rate the situation in the Munich clinics as tense as it was last July.

Even then, there was a risk that many hospitals would have to switch to an intensified crisis mode - and even now patients are already feeling the consequences.

Due to a lack of staff, entire stations have to be closed again and planned operations have to be postponed.

"In the third year of the pandemic, this is extremely unsatisfactory - and unreasonable for our patients," a clinic director railed to our editors.

“After all, we have put some of them off several times.

It's not like they want to go under the knife on a whim.

Osteoarthritis patients sometimes suffer extremely because they don’t get a new hip or knee.”

Dilemma in the emergency department: Seriously ill patients cannot be admitted as inpatients

The magnitude of the personnel dilemma is already evident in the emergency room: more and more seriously ill patients cannot be admitted as inpatients, but have to be transferred to other clinics - because there are no employees on the wards and there are no more beds available.

This problem is getting worse because the expected after-Wiesn Corona wave hits the hospitals with full force.

In doing so, they tend to have less of an issue with overloading their intensive care units, as was the case with the Delta variant.

It is rather the case that Omikron is tearing ever deeper gaps in the last contingent of hospital staff.

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“In the last three years we have lost many colleagues through layoffs.

Now more and more employees are missing because they have Corona themselves.

And to top it all off, some cannot work because their childcare facilities are closed earlier,” reports Bogner-Flatz, herself a mother of three.

Experts are concerned about the coming winter: "We can only hope that we will be spared a severe flu epidemic in addition to Corona," says Hinzmann.

Corona is on the rise again - also in Bavaria.

Health Minister Klaus Holetschek wants to monitor developments closely.

The situation in hospitals is already “very critical”.

Source: merkur

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