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But if someone needs intubation they should be transported to a different location where they will be taken care of, rather than left alone, no?
by jobigoud 7y ago
But if someone needs intubation they should be transported to a different location where they will be taken care of, rather than left alone, no?
- hcknwscommenter 7y agoTransporting an intubated patient hundreds of miles to an area not experiencing an outbreak and having a hospital equipped to deal with same is not a trivial task. Moreover, these numbers of ICU beds bandied about are meaningless. Zero, or close to, of those ICU beds are isolated (infection control).
- tuberelay 7y agoTransporting a patient that sick requires a specially trained doctor and nurse, ambulance transfers to helipad/airport, an 8 hour+ return trip, and a high likelihood of giving the disease to a bunch of people at the new centre. If you had all the resources spare to achieve that, you could just keep them probably.
- flukus 7y agoThere are very few resources dedicated to long distance patient transfer at the best of times. If you pulled away regularly ambulance services and somehow equipped them to handle infection control you'd barely be breaking out of the single digits of patient transfers on a good day.