Posted on 05/27/2020 7:28:12 PM PDT by george76
The coronavirus does not cure heart attacks..
CLEVELAND, Ohio -We know that we have many patients, staying at home suffering these heart attacks not seeking care, said University Hospitals Cardiologist, Dr. Greg Stefano.
Throughout this pandemic regular doctors visits have been cancelled and patients have been avoiding emergency rooms and calling 911, for fear of being exposed at hospitals.
But that is a dangerous trend for heart patients.
64 year Andrew Gruber didnt hesitate when he felt symptoms of a heart attack on April 16th.
Muson EMS got to him within about 5 minutes, performed an EKG at the scene, transmitted information to University Hospitals Geauga, and activated their cath lab team.
Within twenty minutes his doctor was working on him on the operating table.
He told me that if I got there any later, I would have had worse heart damage than I did and I might have not made it. Going there right away saved my life, he said.
Right around the middle of March, March 15th we had a big drop in calls. Our call volume pretty much plummeted and we were lucky to one a day at that point, said Munson Fire Chief Mike Vatty.
The United States is seeing about a 40 percent decrease in cardiac patients through this pandemic.
A lot of them are heart attack patients, who are ignoring minor, so-called warning shots.
UH Cardiologist Dr. Greg Stefano says this is putting patients at unnecessary risk for life-long disabling conditions like heart failure.
People need to go to the emergency room if they have any kind of medical problems. The fear initially was that emergency room there was a chance that they could catch this there, said Vatty.
But he says the public needs to know that the emergency rooms are open for business.
The hospital is a very safe place to be. You cannot have this concept of Im worried about going there to contract something. Its just not correct, said Dr. Stefano.
I was pretty nervous because your wife cant go or none of your family members. Theyre not even allowed to visit, said Gruber.
He admits it wasnt a normal hospital stay, but he encourages others to act as quickly as he did.
Happening all over.Our local hospital even did a video about 3 weeks ago explaining this,that it is safe.
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A lot of people would sooner die, than catch Corona virus
Way to go, media and politicians. What a mess. A lot of lives are being lost because of the fear-porn types.
The mass fear induced by the DNC-inspired media has killed many more than the ‘Rona.
Some medical experts fear more people are dying from untreated emergencies than from the coronavirus..
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3839629/posts
Costing you money?
Well, FOAD.
The inpatient stroke unit at Stanford University Medical Center in California usually has 12 to 15 patients, said its director, Dr. Gregory Albers. On one recent day in April, there were none at all, something that had never happened. .
Back at the Cleveland Clinic, a man arrived with stroke symptoms on April 15. According to Dr. Thomas Waters, an emergency room physician, the man had waited two days to come in because he was afraid of the coronavirus. There was nothing doctors could do to prevent permanent brain damage.
We had a large local hospital create a 50 bed COVID ICU with great fanfare and media coverage, but end up begging for run of the mill patients, as they were left with a deserted ER and clinics.
I had to visit the ER myself and got the fastest care EVER. It was a ghost town.
Various field hospitals had capacity to treat 14,817 coronavirus patients across the US.- treated only 1,177 patients.. like the NYC virtually empty 2,500-bed Javits Center..
Mayo Clinic furloughed or reduced pay of 30,000 employees - surgical volume is at 25 to 30 percent of normal.
Other health care institutions, like Olmsted Medical Center, have taken similar steps.
Oklahoma City hospital closing due to lack of patients.. The 238-bed acute-care facility is shut down.. doctors, nurses & other staff are sent home because of very low patient census..
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