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    Saskatoon ICUs maxed out because of COVID-19, patients diverted to smaller centres

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/icus-maxed-out-because-of-covid-19-1.5801785 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/icus-maxed-out-because-of-covid-19-1.5801785

    The intensive care units of Saskatoon hospitals are so full that officials have stopped accepting most out-of-town patients.

    The ICU unit is always populated by people recovering from car crashes, infections, heart attacks or a host of other maladies, but the deteriorating COVID-19 situation has forced this unprecedented decision, doctors say.

    Physicians have been getting emails from Saskatchewan Health Authority officials this month saying Saskatoon ICUs are overloaded to levels as high as 133 per cent of capacity. Friday, an email pegged the number at 126 per cent.

    Saskatoon's 23 ICU beds are now mostly reserved for Saskatoon patients only.

    This "bypass" status has been in place since Monday. It was also ordered between Nov. 2 and 5, SHA chief medical officer Dr. Susan Shaw said in an interview.
    Saskatchewan Health Authority Chief Medical Officer Dr. Susan Shaw says the public can help alleviate overcrowding in Saskatoon's intensive care units by following COVID-19 safety guidelines. (Zoom)

    Patients with major trauma, strokes and other emergencies will still be admitted to Saskatoon ICUs, but those with severe pneumonia, drug overdoses and other afflictions will be diverted to other cities, Shaw said.

    So far, four patients have been sent from Saskatoon to available ICU beds in other cities. Prince Albert, North Battleford, Lloydminster, Swift Current, Moose Jaw, Yorkton and Regina have a combinedtotal of 67 ICU beds.

    With new COVID-19 cases rising — and bringing with them hospital and ICU admissions — some doctors say the situation could continue indefinitely. It could also cause other cities with fewer beds to be placed on "bypass."

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    Shaw said Saskatchewan's excellent transportation network of air and road ambulances, and its strong provincial co-ordination, have helped get patients where they need to be with minimal disruption. She said she's not aware of any negative health consequence for the four that have been diverted so far.

    But Shaw, who also works in Saskatoon's intensive care units, said this problem won't be solved by doctors or nurses or administrators. She begged Saskatchewan residents to take precautions to keep COVID-19 numbers down.

    "We are having to do this because of COVID. The public can do so much to help keep the system stable. We will be there for them, but we need them to be there for us," Shaw said.

    Shaw said the bypass system was developed in the spring by provincial health planners. An algorithm is used more than once a day to assess available beds, staffing levels and a host of other factors. If a unit exceeds 100 per cent capacity for a sustained period, it will be placed on bypass.

    An official said more ICU beds, ventilators and staff can be added if there are no other options.

    #2
    So how many people are still going to keep saying Covid is nothing to worry about?

    Hospitals across the country and right here In Saskatchewan are headed for a crisis where they wont be able to provide the kind of healthcare when you or your family may need it.

    You better not have a car accident or get a serious infection or get sick and require hospitalization.

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      #3
      I wonder if it will get so bad that the field hospitals will have to be used.

      If the general public is expected to isolate why would the health care system put Covid positive patient's who need hospitalization in with negative hospitalized patients who are at higher risk if they contract the virus?

      This thing will run it's course despite our best efforts to contain it. We either let it run rampant and get it over with or drag it out over time.

      Do people prefer the slow methodical approach that could save some lives or the willy-nilly that has no regard.

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        #4
        The problem with just saying let’s let it run rampant and do nothing to save business is you’d still have the concerned people not going out at all therefore less business than even now.
        You’d not achieve herd immunity and more would die. Much more.
        Take a restaurant for example open up totally and don’t have safe distancing etc you’d be full maybe the first 2 to 3 weeks if you could get anyone to work there but assume you did all those who didn’t care would get sick hospitals would be over run the others would stay at home restaurant still broke and more dead.

        There is this myth that doing nothing would be such an easy solution and it isn’t. Because everyone isn’t following the rules or There haven’t been logical rules is why we keep teetering on the worst of both worlds.

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          #5
          Originally posted by farmaholic View Post
          I wonder if it will get so bad that the field hospitals will have to be used.

          If the general public is expected to isolate why would the health care system put Covid positive patient's who need hospitalization in with negative hospitalized patients who are at higher risk if they contract the virus?

          This thing will run it's course despite our best efforts to contain it. We either let it run rampant and get it over with or drag it out over time.

          Do people prefer the slow methodical approach that could save some lives or the willy-nilly that has no regard.
          It will take many months to run its course uncontrolled because once the bodies start piling up in the reefer vans and many of the health care workers are not able to get much work done because they are sick as well with hospitals overflowing, many people will just hunker down on their own, to scared to go out.

          Any idea that many in person non essential small businesses would survive the chaos of an out of control pandemic is questionable.

          We need to slow the spread, manage health care resources for several more months until we can get the most vulnerable people vaccinated.

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            #6
            Just imagine if both governments of the NDp and saskparty hadn't eliminated or reduced services in smaller centres...

            The locals wouldn't be heading to the big centres for treatment and it could be contained a bit....

            I think the vision of any government is squarely looking up their ass....

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              #7
              Bucket you and I both know that after the NDP closed down some rural hospitals after Devine nearly bankrupted the province, and that the Sask Party did nothing to reopen them.

              Its pretty hard to get doctors let alone specialists to staff small rural hospitals. So the providing centralized services is a more efficient way to run a smaller provinces' health care system.

              That is unless the many Sask Party supporters want to pay a lot more taxes to reopen and enhance rural health care facilities? If so pony up!
              Last edited by chuckChuck; Nov 14, 2020, 08:53.

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                #8
                Originally posted by bucket View Post
                Just imagine if both governments of the NDp and saskparty hadn't eliminated or reduced services in smaller centres...

                The locals wouldn't be heading to the big centres for treatment and it could be contained a bit....

                I think the vision of any government is squarely looking up their ass....
                It's only missed when you need it.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by farmaholic View Post
                  It's only missed when you need it.
                  True but people from smaller centres with their health care facility closed or reduced are being sent to the city for simple procedures and appointments...

                  Blood work, stitches just drive by the local because they will send you on anyway...

                  Its phucking stupid....they use to deliver babies at the local....now you can't get stitches or a prescription change FFS.

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                    #10
                    I picked this thread intentionally. Does anyone on here know where I could find a chevy stove bolt engine. That's a 216 cubic inch with the full cover on the sparkplug side. All 1940s would work.

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by 6V53 View Post
                      I picked this thread intentionally. Does anyone on here know where I could find a chevy stove bolt engine. That's a 216 cubic inch with the full cover on the sparkplug side. All 1940s would work.
                      Four seasons garden centre in Pennsylvania
                      Has anything you want. Ask for a guy named qanon or Rudy. If rudy isn’t there he ll be next door lieing on a bed with his hands in his pants. They can cover anything real or make belief that you desire.

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                        #12
                        The Sask Party has been in power since 2007. They are responsible for how the system is today and how they manage health care in the province during Covid. If the shite hits the fan then they will be wearing it.

                        Moe is afraid to do the right thing and try to save as many lives as possible. He could spend some money to help small businesses with loans and protection from landlords. Why not? Because its politics! With 60% percent of the vote and a recent landslide he can afford to make the tough decisions required to save lives.

                        And we still have people who are anti mask! What is wrong with these people? Self centered and stupid! That's what is wrong!

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                          #13
                          Why don’t they put people into the UofS hockey rink Merlis Blecher?

                          From what I understand it’s full of beds, cement cut out of the ice surface in many places to install septic tanks so patients don’t have to walk so far. Destroy a new building?

                          You would think other older rinks would have been a better move? Or other warehouses?

                          You would think Govt would support rural infrastructure and communities, taking people out of the high density - crowded, toxic urban areas. I see that saskatoon elected Charlie to intensify further saskatoon so every one will have equal rights and access.

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                            #14
                            https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/saskatoon-hospitals-hit-overcapacity-1.3464285 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/saskatoon-hospitals-hit-overcapacity-1.3464285

                            Here's a bit of perspective. Make sure you note the date of the article.

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                              #15
                              bastard is snowing here again, really piling up , spring flooding a real possibility

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