State of emergency: Salzburg state clinics are preparing for triage – Chronicle
In the clinics, it will soon no longer be possible to guarantee the treatment of additional patients according to strict medical standards and standards of care. An emergency situation threatens to arise in which intensive medical triages must be undertaken.
The SALK have now nominated a six-person triage team made up of five doctors from various fields – including an internist, an intensive care doctor and a palliative doctor – and a lawyer, SALK spokesman Wolfgang Fürweger told APA on Tuesday morning. This team then has to decide which patients can still be treated in intensive care.
A hospital doctor also described how dramatic the situation is in the “Salzburger Nachrichten”. “Every day there is an inhumane argument about whose patient can be operated on first. The one with the tumor or the one with the broken heart.”
The youngest patient is a four-year-old girl
A report on “ORF Salzburg” also caused concern on Tuesday, so the youngest patient with Covid disease in an intensive care unit is a four-year-old girl. After a corona infection, the child suffers from multi-organ inflammation PIMS, a sequela of Covid.
At the same time, a five-year-old with Covid-19 must be treated in the children’s intensive care unit.
(apa / joi)