According to the new procured organization, ordinary ambulances with plenty of space will gradually take over the transports of intensive care patients who need to be moved to another hospital.
This coincides with the also new decision within the region that Helsingborg's hospital will only take care of a maximum of two covid patients with a need for intensive care.
The rest will be moved to the hospitals in Malmö and Lund by ambulance.
May arrange with own staff
But - if an anesthesiologist or anesthesia nurse is needed on the ambulance during transport, the hospitals must fix it themselves.
That worries Håka Kerrén, head of emergency care at Helsingborg Hospital.
- We do not have the capacity to send with such resources.
It would be an extra challenge, he says.
The intensive care nurse Lisa Hassel points out that covid patients who are cared for in intensive care are very ill.
- They are in poor condition.
must be in the abdominal position and are inturbed.
We do not send patients with a regular ambulance, she says.
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