Preparing for the second wave of the new Corona The issue is to improve the system of the hospital 18:34 on June 5
At the hospital in Saitama City, which accepted severely ill patients with the new coronavirus, the number of infected people has decreased, and the hospital has begun to return to the usual medical care beds, but the infection will spread again. The challenge is how to create a system for the second wave.
The Saitama Medical Center in Jichi Medical School, located in Omiya Ward, Saitama City, has accepted 32 patients with the new coronavirus so far.
Of these, 12 were critically ill patients who needed an artificial heart-lung machine called "ECMO", which is used when the functions of the ventilator and lungs deteriorate. Dedicated floor.
In addition, in order to secure the personnel of the intensive care unit, we closed 100 beds in two wards and reduced the number of non-urgent operations by 20%.
Due to such measures and refraining from receiving medical examinations, this means that the hospital income in April decreased by 170 million yen compared to the previous year.
Currently, three people are still hospitalized in this hospital, but all of them are negative for the virus test.
For this reason, the hospital decided to restore the system of the intensive care unit from the next week and to reopen the closed ward so that the surgery could be restored.
In the future, if a new infected person comes out, we plan to deal with 3 beds in the "negative pressure chamber" where the internal pressure is lowered so that the virus does not spread, but on the other hand, the infection will spread again. If a large number of patients come out due to the "wave", it is said that immediately establishing a sufficient system is a major issue in terms of securing personnel.
Deputy Director Masamitsu Sanai said, "It's a tough question how much we can put it back, but we can't contribute to local medical care without accepting ordinary patients. It will be difficult to expand the scale of acceptance at once in the second wave. I have a lot of experience, so I would like to think about how to utilize it next time."