Mumbai: The two ways of the third patient in the Covid Mumbai intensive care unit are accepted for other reasons but by chance are tested positively during routine screening.
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.
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.
In the third wave, most of the patients do not deteriorate unless they have premorbid conditions, or they are elderly, said Dr.
Niteen Karnik, Head of the Medical Hospital.