{"id":4102,"date":"2020-12-28T15:56:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T15:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4102"},"modified":"2020-12-28T15:56:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T15:56:51","slug":"hospital-icus-are-filling-up-its-even-worse-than-it-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4102","title":{"rendered":"Hospital ICUs are filling up. It\u2019s even worse than it sounds."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;bed capacity numbers don\u2019t tell the whole story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adding extra critical-care beds in other departments or buildings takes precious time, resources, and space. But adding trained staff is much more difficult, especially deep into a pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When trained staff are in short supply, it\u2019s even harder for hospitals to best meet the needs of critical-care patients. These patients include people very sick with Covid-19, but also many who need to be in the ICU for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sccm.org\/Communications\/Critical-Care-Statistics#:~:text=The%20five%20primary%20ICU%20admission,severe%20sepsis%20without%20mechanical%20ventilation.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">other reasons<\/a>, such as those who have had a heart attack or stroke, are recovering from major surgery, or are sick with the flu, among others&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;it is not just ICU physicians and nurses who are in short supply. \u201cCritical care is more of a team sport,\u201d Garner said. \u201cThis means physician-delivered care and interventions, but also careful medication selection dosage with pharmacists, skilled nursing care, respiratory therapists, midlevel providers, nutritionists, early mobilization with physical therapists.\u201d To that list, Nagle also adds all of the other hospital staff needed to perform other essential tasks in ICUs, including bathing patients, changing linens, and other functions.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22196119\/icu-capacity-hospital-staffing-coronavirus-covid-19\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22196119\/icu-capacity-hospital-staffing-coronavirus-covid-19<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;bed capacity numbers don\u2019t tell the whole story.<\/p>\n<p>Adding extra critical-care beds in other departments or buildings takes precious time, resources, and space. But adding trained staff is much more difficult, especially deep into a pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>When trained staff are in short supply, it\u2019s even harder for hospitals to best meet the needs of critical-care patients. These patients include people very sick with Covid-19, but also many who need to be in the ICU for other reasons, such as those who have had a heart attack or stroke, are recovering from major surgery, or are sick with the flu, among others&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;it is not just ICU physicians and nurses who are in short supply. \u201cCritical care is more of a team sport,\u201d Garner said. \u201cThis means physician-delivered care and interventions, but also careful medication selection dosage with pharmacists, skilled nursing care, respiratory therapists, midlevel providers, nutritionists, early mobilization with physical therapists.\u201d To that list, Nagle also adds all of the other hospital staff needed to perform other essential tasks in ICUs, including bathing patients, changing linens, and other functions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[588,409,483,476],"class_list":["post-4102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4103,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102\/revisions\/4103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}