Following tips to Ivo that the emergency hospitals in the Stockholm Region made different priorities in intensive care this spring, an inspection was initiated.
Ivo has now examined all emergency hospitals in the region and notes that Karolinska University Hospital has failed in its handling, reports the news agency Siren.
Among other things, the hospital introduced a decision support for qualification for IVA, which risked excluding patients who had needed intensive care according to Ivo.
The other emergency hospitals manage without a hitch.
Karolinska: Takes the decision very seriously
"We have received the decision from IVO and, as usual, take their criticism very seriously," writes David Konrad, IVA manager at Karolinska, in an email response to SVT and continues:
“No patient should be excluded from intensive care based on biological age.
In each patient case, an individual assessment is made based on the possibility of acquiring intensive care with a good prognosis.
As we have previously communicated and also presented to IVO during the supervision, there has never been a guideline that means that a patient is assessed solely on biological age.
It is about a decision support to the activity for initiation or interruption of IVA care. "