Intensive Care Professor Theodoros Vasilakopoulos spoke to SKAI about the shortage of ICUs and the growing number of patients who need to be treated, explaining why increasing ICUs for patients with coronavirus is not a solution.
As the professor explained, there is a significant shortage of intensivists, which means that if new ICUs are built they will not be able to be staffed and we will not have positive results.
“Opening emergency beds and not real ICUs properly staffed, turning an operating room into an ICU is an emergency solution and you can not achieve the results you would achieve if you had a properly staffed, organized and experienced ICU. “It is not possible to have ideal results in conditions of war and emergency,” he stressed.
He also said that “since we do not have other ICUs and that anyway filling the ICUs with patients who have coronavirus is not a solution, because even in the best hands in the world mortality is 40%, 4 in 10 will die “, other measures should be taken.
Mr. Vasilakopoulos clarified that “there are two parallel intensive care systems”. There are ICUs only for patients with coronavirus and ICUs only for patients without coronavirus. “You can not put a coronavirus patient where there are people who do not have a coronavirus and vice versa.”
The ratio of ICUs, ie how many beds will be covid and how many non-covid, is defined by the state and changes according to needs. But giving more beds only to covid patients has the effect of solidifying them than those with other diseases, he explained.
Finally, he stressed that we must increase the vaccination in any way and that a lockdown would help to save time.
“Having 200,000 new vaccine appointments in 15 days means we need 4-5 months at this rate to reach a rate where we can deal with the epidemic. At the same time, we need to update the immunity of many who have already been vaccinated with a booster dose. “
For those who are unrepentant in being vaccinated and questioning science, the professor commented on what they call “comedy.”
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