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The lack of surface area in extensive care sets (ICUs) due to the number of patients with COVID-19 is causing a deep crisis in the surgical activity of hospitals, which has been reduced by 50-80%.
“Surgical activity throughout Italy has been reduced by 50% on average with peaks of 80%, reserving operations only for cancer patients and emergencies. But sometimes it is not imaginable to work even in cancer patients, because there is no availability of the extensive postoperative care unit,” Francesco Basile, president of the Italian Society of Surgery (SIC), said on Monday.
Basil explained that most hospitalizations are compromised with COVID-19 cases, while ICUs are more often occupied by unvaccinated people. The expert is involved in many cancer cases “that arrive too late at the hospital. “
For example, referring to the scenario in 2020, the expert said that some 400,000 surgeries were postponed, which generated “a worsening of tumor pathologies that arrived at the hospital when it was already too late to operate. “
Basilio said that in 2021 we are facing the same conditions as in 2020, “which resulted in 400,000 postponed surgeries, an abundant increase in the number of patients on the waiting list and, what is more serious, a worsening of the tumor. “of pathologies that arrived at the hospital in the following months, now inoperable. “
Italy is facing a significant challenge with the pandemic. Although 78. 79% of Italian citizens finished the full vaccination cycle on Monday, those who put pressure on the health care formula in terms of hospitalizations are the most commonly unvaccinated.
While the Omicron variant reduces hospitalizations by 40%, as The Guardian reports, its high transmissibility can still have a massive impact on hospitals.
(Eleonora Basins | EURACTIV. com)