Posted on 01/04/2021 10:22:42 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
With intensive care units at Southern California hospitals nearly full because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services Agency (EMS) has directed ambulance crews not to transport patients with little chance of survival to hospitals, and to conserve the use of oxygen.
Los Angeles and Southern California are dealing with one of the country's worst outbreaks of the novel coronavirus. ICU bed capacity plunged to 0% in Southern California last month, as more and more people were admitted to hospital seeking treatment for Covid-19.
Now, many medical facilities simply do not have the space to take in patients who do not have a chance of survival, according to the agency.
As of Monday evening, there were 7,544 people hospitalized in Los Angeles due to Covid-19 and just 17 available adult ICU beds, according to county health data. Due to the shortage of beds, the county EMS said patients whose hearts have stopped, despite efforts of resuscitation, should no longer be transported to hospitals.
If there are no signs of breathing or a pulse, EMS will continue to perform resuscitation for at least 20 minutes, the EMS memo said. If the patient is stabilized after the period of resuscitation, the patient would then be transported to a hospital. If the patient is declared dead at the scene or if no pulse can be restored, paramedics will no longer transport the body to the hospital.
Oxygen shortage: A shortage of oxygen in Los Angeles and the nearby San Joaquin Valley, thanks to Covid-19, is putting immense pressure on the system and forcing paramedics to conserve the supply.
In order to maintain normal circulation of the blood to organs and tissue needed for the body to function, EMS said an oxygen saturation of at least 90% will be sufficient.
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these people are morons
they could easily put people on oxygen concentrator units
Aren’t the hospitals always at near capacity during the Winter months? And most deaths occur in Jan-Feb?
Move all those illegal aliens out of the hospitals and there’ll be room enough for the American citizens...
If people who were actually sick were the ones who stayed home, then there would be some progress made in combatting every viral illness.
But nooooooo, everyone has their *rights* dontcha know?
They simply do not care what they do to anyone else.
OTOH, being sick is a good enough reason to stay home in the winter and who wants to go out in the cold when you’re sick anyways? Ugh.....
I think all they’re saying is the ER’s can’t accept dead people and hold them in a room for family, etc to visit....
They’ve dumbed down so much of the population, most aren’t even capable of critical thinking.
It’s more important to report people walking the wrong way in a grocery store aisle. That’s considered good citizenship now.
Sounds fair to me!
Seriously: How does this differ from the previous policy? Were dead patients previously transported to the hospital?! This excerpt seems to imply that!
Regards,
What’s next, just toss them off into the weeds and drive off?
Ghouls.
Does anyone have a reputable news source for this story?
I am not talking about just this president but ANY president.
The president's medical team is backed up by the secret service. Their health is treated with great care and things you and I would shrug off or go to bed with a hot toddy means a trip to Walter Reed. They over react. That is their job.
Perhaps the California authorities have figured out what the Chinese already know. A disease that kills the elderly and the weak while leaving the young and skilled working age people relatively unscathed may not be such a bad thing after all. Look at the savings in SS and Medicare alone.
The difference is the 20 minutes spent in the field trying to resuscitate.
Yes. Last spring, before it got here, this is exactly what Italy had to do - ration care and try to guess who to give a vent to...I read a piece written by a doctor in Italy and how his choices were decided.
Additionally all hospitals have plans for emergency situations.
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