Something that has been annoying me all pandemic is this idea of ICU beds and capacity It's often painted as having [x] number of beds, all of which are available for COVID-19 Thanks not really how it works, sadly 1/n
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ICU beds are often used for non-ICU patients, however. Often they can be bumped to other non-ICU wards if a true ICU-requiring patient appears.
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Been thinking about the same thing. I don't get why politicians look at it like "we have 1000 beds available, let's continue what we are doing until they fill up." Why the rush to fill them up? We should be doing everything we can to prevent them from being used.
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Paper mentioning that when capacity is under 70%, doctors more likely to send patients to ICU, over 70% they are less likely. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5520980/ …
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Implying that many decisions to send patients to ICU are not clear-cut at all, and patients may be moved.
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@riconuila illustrated this beautifully in the New Yorker.https://www.newyorker.com/science/medical-dispatch/to-fight-the-coronavirus-you-need-an-army …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Same holds true for regular hospital beds which is why the difficult decision was made to postpone elective surgeries. How do you even begin to calculate the costs to patients of delaying surgery by several months?
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