In order to quickly connect patients who need treatment when medical care is tight due to the new coronavirus to hospitalization, academic societies made up of emergency specialists judge the urgency by medical examination and use it to judge the priority of hospitalization. We have summarized the idea of a new standard as a proposal.
This proposal was jointly compiled by the Japanese Society for Emergency Medicine and the Japanese Society for Emergency Medicine.
According to academic societies, there has been no unified standard for hospitalization priorities, and in many cases there was no choice but to make decisions based on what was heard at health centers.
The recommendations include a concept of criteria for prioritizing hospitalization so that urgent patients who rapidly become severely ill with the new coronavirus when the bed is tight can be hospitalized as soon as possible.
The criteria divide the patient's condition into four according to urgency, and in addition to traditional indicators such as whether there is an underlying disease and the oxygen level in the blood, detailed blood test values and lungs. It is said that the urgency will be judged by utilizing the medical test results such as the image diagnosis of.
In addition, he said that the priority of hospitalization should be judged comprehensively based on the patient's condition and changes in symptoms.
The academic society hopes that by utilizing the test results of medical institutions, it will be possible to receive treatment at a more appropriate timing.
Professor Naoto Morimura of Teikyo University School of Medicine, who created the report, said, "In a situation where medical care is tight, the health center and medical institution can work together to determine the patient's condition more accurately. But if you have any symptoms, I would like you to see a medical institution. "