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The bed point is good, what's the current data for ICU bed space in your country?
by h3cate 6y ago
The bed point is good, what's the current data for ICU bed space in your country?
- dhruvrrp 6y agoMy county has less than 15% ICU bed availability.
- h3cate 6y agoAnd what was the average availability for the previous 5 years?
- dhruvrrp 6y agoIt was hovering around 30-40% 2 months ago, and was around 56% in May. Unfortunately historical data is hard to find since most gov/hospital websites only seem to show covid related data.
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- hcurtiss 6y agoBut that's because the pandemic actually emptied out most hospitals. ICUs are not built for Easter Sunday. Here's an article with pre-pandemic numbers: "Although average ICU occupancy was only 68% in 2005, some hospitals, especially academic medical centers, regularly face occupancy levels exceeding 90% (Wunsch et al. 2013), often requiring the rationing of scarce critical care beds." http://www.elisalong.com/uploads/1/0/9/7/109701801/long_mathews_2017_-_the_boarding_patient.pdf http://www.elisalong.com/uploads/1/0/9/7/109701801/long_math...
- rsfern 6y agoSounds like ICU capacity is roughly appropriate for normal-times peak demand to me. The average occupancy you quote is consistent with the “2 months ago” capacity quoted by GP.
- jariel 6y agoThe pandemic emptied hospitals and put many other kinds of therapies, surgeries etc. on delay, because it's dangerous. Hence the need to get vaccinated so we can resume.
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