APHP postpones 20% of surgical operations “from this weekend”

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Faced with the influx of coronavirus patients in its intensive care units, the management of Public Assistance-Hospitals of Paris (AP-HP) announced this Thursday to be "forced to carry out first deprogramming" of operations surgical procedures “starting this weekend”.

According to the deputy director of the APHP, François Crémieux, the number of “Covid patients” admitted in intensive care rose from 50 at the beginning of September to 132 on Wednesday and should exceed 200 at the end of the month.

“The challenge for the next 15 days will be not to have to go to 50% of unscheduled operations,” he explained.

No "massive cancellation" in sight

With more than 25% of critical care beds occupied by cases of coronavirus, “the deprogramming that we wanted to avoid at all costs are now necessary” and the AP-HP “will be forced to carry out first to from this weekend, to be able to welcome Covid patients in intensive care, ”he explained.

This will represent “approximately 20%” of the planned operations, in priority those concerning “patients whose treatment can be postponed without risk of loss of opportunity”.

The institution now hopes that the new restrictions announced Wednesday by the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, will make it possible to halt the epidemic rebound.

“The challenge for the next 15 days will be not to have to switch to 50% of unscheduled operations,” added François Crémieux.

The director general of the AP-HP, Martin Hirsch, nevertheless stressed that these “adjustments of scheduled activities” were not of the same order as “the massive cancellation” decided at the national level just before the confinement in mid-March.

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