Fourth wave for nursing staff “grueling”
In the entire state, 25 Covid intensive care beds are currently occupied, a third of the patients are vaccinated, for them the vaccination protection was obviously not sufficient. In the case of the unvaccinated, it can be seen that the patients who die in the intensive care units are mostly between 50 and 65 years old.
Twelve-hour shift for intensive care carers
There are three Covid intensive care units at the University Hospital in Salzburg. The care of CoV sufferers is complex, and beds are also needed for other sick people who also need intensive care. A shift lasts twelve hours and the workload is great for the staff.
“The situation is currently grueling for us. We see that we are full. Every day when I go to work, I think to myself, how will this day be and it is confirmed every day anew that we are so short on beds that I cannot understand why people do not vaccinate leave ”, describes intensive care nurse Andrea Dachs.
Fourth wave for nursing staff “grueling”
In the Salzburg hospitals, the nurses are struggling with the effects of the fourth wave of Covid. Current figures show that vaccination protection is waning in those who have died a long time ago. A third of the patients in the Covid intensive care units are vaccinated, and more than half in the Covid normal units.
Uniklinikum: Intensive care units 90 percent full
The situation during the fourth wave is tense – the intensive care units at the university hospital are already 90 percent full. The danger is that additional sick people will come to the hospitals who also need medical help.
Doctors and nurses with vaccination appeal to the population
According to hospitals, the patients often have no previous illnesses, it can affect anyone, say the staff. The intensive care staff appeals to everyone to get vaccinated so that more people don’t need help.
“The population has an obligation – the personal right, as it is so often called, this ‘I-I-I’ cannot really be seen as a standard in relation to social responsibility. We observe a mixture of anger and resignation among the employees. Nevertheless, you try to motivate yourself every day anew, so that you can manage the work with seriously ill patients, where there are whole fates behind them, ”says the senior physician in the intensive care unit, Clemens Seelmaier.
