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Dear Americans,
Across our nation, esp in the Midwest, children's hospital beds reserved for sick kids are now being deployed to offload adult hospitals due to surge #COVID19 patients.
Is this normal? No.
But you have given hospitals no choice.
THREAD https://twitter.com/FutureDocs/status/1330575547211059202?s=20
Across our nation, esp in the Midwest, children's hospital beds reserved for sick kids are now being deployed to offload adult hospitals due to surge #COVID19 patients.
Is this normal? No.
But you have given hospitals no choice.
THREAD https://twitter.com/FutureDocs/status/1330575547211059202?s=20
Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt prepping surge beds at Children's Hospital
'Space is tight' in 730-bed main hospital
1) has already cancelled surgeries
2) stopped taking ICU transfers
2) over 230 staff are out sick
https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/health-care/article/21144630/vanderbilt-prepping-surge-beds-at-childrens-hospital
'Space is tight' in 730-bed main hospital
1) has already cancelled surgeries
2) stopped taking ICU transfers
2) over 230 staff are out sick
https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/health-care/article/21144630/vanderbilt-prepping-surge-beds-at-childrens-hospital
Columbus, Ohio: Nationwide Children's to start admitting young adults to help other hospitals https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2020/11/16/covid-19-nationwide-childrens-admit-adults-help-hospitals/6314094002/
Salt Lake City, Utah: Intermountain, the state’s largest health system, is transferring some of its patients to its nationally ranked hospital for children. https://www.abc4.com/news/top-stories/covid-19-surge-leading-pediatric-hospitals-to-treat-adult-patients/
Arkansas - Children's Hospital used to expand capacity https://www.thv11.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/arkansas-childrens-hospital-expands-capacity/91-238ac6d3-97e7-42b4-97e1-8ac3f26d7223
Wisconsin Children's started admitting adults last week according to this: https://www.wisn.com/article/coronavirus-childrens-wisconsin-to-admit-adult-patients-amid-surge/34694317
Happening in MN too per @karynbaum. Happened already in Spring, inc in Illinois.
It is a lever adult hospitals pull have to pull during a surge when they have no choice. So many had to in Spring there are papers on topic & training @POPCoRNetwork https://www.journalofhospitalmedicine.com/jhospmed/article/220705/hospital-medicine/childrens-hospitals-caring-adults-during-pandemic
It is a lever adult hospitals pull have to pull during a surge when they have no choice. So many had to in Spring there are papers on topic & training @POPCoRNetwork https://www.journalofhospitalmedicine.com/jhospmed/article/220705/hospital-medicine/childrens-hospitals-caring-adults-during-pandemic
I love pediatricians and as a colleague, I know they will answer the call to admit adult patients. But I am disturbed. Is this who we are as a society? Celebrating #Thanksgiving while beds for sick kids are redeployed? What's next? What has our nation become? #mondaythoughts
