How to “adjust surgery because there is no room for critically ill patients”

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Let's focus on medical reporter Cho Dong-chan and medical measures for critically ill patients.

[Cho Dong-chan / Medical reporter (specialist): The story of Omicron is in full swing, but the current problem is delta. We had an emergency press conference at the Korean Society of Critical Care Medicine, and I would like to

hear from

you.]

[Hong Seok-kyung/Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at Seoul Asan Hospital: When the metropolitan area hospital bed response team allocates patients from time to time, it can be seen that there is little room for hospitals that can receive them now.]

[Ryu Ho-Gul / Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at Seoul National University Hospital: Surgery that can only be performed when there is room in the intensive care unit is already adjusting the schedule. So it's a little less than before.]

[Cho Dong-chan/Medical Reporter (specialist): There is virtually no intensive care unit, and surgery such as cancer and cerebrovascular disease is being postponed due to the lack of an intensive care unit.]

[Cho Dong-chan/medical reporter (specialist): Even a patient who said he would not receive life-sustaining treatment for terminal cancer is now being assigned an intensive care bed if he is infected with Corona. Let's hear it for yourself.]

[Seo Ji-young/Professor of Critical Care Medicine at Samsung Seoul Hospital: In a situation where there are absolutely no beds, the current bed assignment method, which is being carried out without adequate consideration of the severity of the disease and the possibility of recovery from treatment, allows patients with high recovery potential to receive appropriate treatment. It is causing a situation where it cannot be received.]

[Cho Dong-chan / Medical reporter (specialist): Now, all critically ill patients with Corona are assigned to severe hospital beds, but there is no possibility of recovery, such as terminal cancer. It would be difficult to see it as a process of dignified death.

Also, even if you have some symptoms of Corona, there is no infection from others after about 10 days.

However, there are many cases where they are in the intensive care unit until the symptoms completely disappear, but it is said that the general ward did not accept them.

It is also important for patients who are not at risk of infection by the infectious disease specialist to quickly return to the general ward.]