Switzerland - "The Swiss Society of Intensive Care Medicine today announced that its 876 adult intensive care beds are practically filled" - November

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Kai Kupferschmidt

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Where we are: The Swiss Society of Intensive Care Medicine today announced that its 876 adult intensive care beds are practically filled and asked everyone to think about a living will spelling out whether they want life-extending measures to be taken in case of serious disease.
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Kai Kupferschmidt

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The announcement spells out that it had only been possible to avoid an overload until now by increasing the number of beds, postponing elective surgeries and transferring patients to other cantons. https://sgi-ssmi.ch/files/Dateiverwaltung/COVID_19/Stellungnahmen%20SGI/IMSGCVCM_Stellungnahme_COVID-19_201117_DE_10.pdf…

 

[Mary Wilson]

Coronavirus: Switzerland’s intensive care units ‘close to capacity or above’

17 November 2020
17:18 CET+01:00

... The situation in intensive care beds is particularly dire, with several cantons “close to capacity or above”.

Not only does this increase the risks for potential coronavirus patients, people with other serious conditions also face higher risks.

... Virginie Masserey, the Head of Infection Control Section at the Federal Office of Public Health FOPH, said the number of new infections was still too high.

In several cantons, intensive care bed capacities were already exceeded, with hospitals struggling to add extra beds.

... in individual cantons, “intensive care units are close to the capacity limit or above”.

The situation is particularly dire in Aargau, Fribourg and Solothurn, where capacity has already exceeded 90 percent - while in Glarus ICU patients have already exceeded the canton’s capacity.

The following chart shows how full each canton’s intensive care units are on a percentage basis...

https://www.thelocal.ch/20201117/th...tensive-care-units-close-to-capacity-or-above