The president of the Peruvian Society of Intensive Medicine, Jesús Valverde, warned this Monday that the beds of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in the country have already collapsed after the increase in patients with COVID-19.
In an interview with the program The Air Rotary from RPP, the doctor explained that the IC is very dynamic and specified that until yesterday, Sunday, there were no beds in this unit in hospitals and private clinics in the capital.
“Nowadays the hospital beds, which were the hospital’s reserve, are already being filled. This means that the migration of patients directly from their home to tertiary hospitals is fair and vertical. At this point we can say that ICs nationwide have already collapsed, our growth is taking place in vast areas outside the ICU, ”he warned.
Jesus Valverde clarified that IC beds will not solve the problem of patients with COVID-19, for which he proposed a second-level containment strategy based on high flow systems installed in general hospital admissions. “We currently have about 350 to 400 high-flow devices across the country,” he added.
“We are proposing to the Department of Health, and it has been three or four months since these high-flow systems are bought. in patients who will progress severely, ”he said.
The same, Jesus Valverde emphasized the tcontinuous work of intensive care physicians throughout the 10-month pandemicdespite staff exhaustion. In addition, he insisted that the growth of the UCI reached its peak because there are no more health workers.
“The pandemic has shown the shortage of intensivists It’s big at the national level, we’re going through a global crisis of intensive doctors, it’s happening all over the world, it’s happening in Europe in North America and Peru was no stranger to that. Latin America does not have the number of intensivists comparable to first world countries, ”he complained.
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