Mumbai: almost two-third patients in the Covid Covid intensive care unit are inaugurated for other reasons but by chance to be positive when tested during routine filtering.
The doctor throughout the hospital said these patients did not suffer from Covid complications but occupy Covid ICU beds because they had been tested positively.
That said, the request of the Covid Icus is relatively lacking in this wave.
Nearly 1,000 Covid ICU beds from 3,000 provided for viral diseases in this city are occupied today.
“The trend of people being hospitalized in critical units ‘with Covid’ than ‘because Covid’ is being seen throughout the world during the third wave,” said Dr.
Rahul Pandit, intensive and member of the Covid Task Force.
In the ICU at Fortis Mulund Hospital, Covid-19 is not a major disease in 65% of patients.
At Kokilaben Andheri Hospital, almost 80% of ICU patients were the case of ‘incidental covid’, said Executive Director Dr.
Santosh Shetty.
“Patients treated with a heart attack, stroke, kidney disease, and even accidents are testing positive Covid when they are filtered as part of our routine protocol,” he said, adding that the Covid ICU 35 beds filled with people who did not have complications Covid.
The same trend is also seen in another hospital.
When a seven-year-old girl was brought in pant to the emergency ward of the Bhatia Hospital last week, the doctor considered it to be induced by Covid.
But when the test was carried out, it turned out that his heart function fell to 20%.
He tested positive when RT-PCR was carried out.
Intentivist Dr.
Gunjan Chanchalani said up to 40% of their patients who came to stroke or heart problems turned positive.
Hospitals in the US, especially in Massachusetts and New York, maintain a separate list of those who come ‘for Covid’ and ‘with Covid’.
Closer houses, the State Health Department in Kolkata have created a team of six members to visit the ICUS and high dependency units to measure which parts of patients experiencing Covid infection.
Dr.
Pandit said once a ‘incidental’ patient came to the ICU, they were undoubtedly treated for primary disease but they could not be moved before ten days.
“In terms of covid symptoms, mostly asymptomatic or have a itchy throat that heals in a few days,” he said.
Dr.
Chanchalani said that since the new testing guidelines in the center were released on January 10, they had stopped exchanging all patients.
The testing guidelines stated that the symptomatic patients who underwent invasive surgical / non-surgical procedures including pregnant women in / near deliveries treated in hospitals for delivery should not be tested unless guaranteed or symptoms.
“We don’t test it but make sure they are isolated with each other.
As for health workers, we always wear masks and protective equipment,” he said.