Posted: Apr 20, 2021 5:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 20 I am very afraid, says Cambridge ICU manager
CBC News Kitchener-Waterloo16 hours ago
1:26April McCulloch, ICU clinical manager at Cambridge Memorial Hospital, worries about the possibility of having to tell patients families that there are no beds or ventilators available.1:26
As hospitalizations and intensive-care admissions rise in Waterloo region, the ICU manager at Cambridge Memorial Hospital lives in fear of the day local resources simply run out. I am very afraid of when we have to start telling families that there s nothing we can do, and we can t help them, because we don t have a bed, we don t have a ventilator, said April McCulloch, clinical manager at Ontario s Cambridge Memorial Hospital ICU.
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KITCHENER Cambridge Memorial Hospital has released its latest pandemic planning strategy for critical care. The plan detailed in a Wednesday news release involves increasing bed numbers from 12 to 22 in the ICU if needed. At the time, the hospital is being asked to add an additional five beds based on anticipated demand. Patients have already been taken in from hospitals outside the region. Non-urgent surgeries have been reduced in order to redeploy team members to areas of need. There are currently 10 patients with COVID-19 at Cambridge Memorial Hosptial and six of them in the ICU.
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KITCHENER Hospitals in Waterloo Region are scaling back non-urgent surgeries to prepare to take patients from outside the area in the coming week. The Saturday COVID-19 update for the region lists 18 people in hospital with the virus and four in the ICU. Two of the four ICU patients are at St. Mary’s General Hospital, whose president says they are 95 cent capacity, with only one extra bed available. “This actually gives the example of why thinking about our ICU capacity is so important,” said president Lee Fairclough. “As a regional cardiac centre, of course we will see many patients that come through that will require some ICU care.”
KITCHENER Cambridge Memorial Hospital officials say a COVID-19 outbreak in the Rehabilitation Unit has been declared over. In the Tuesday news release, the hospital says there hasn t been a new case in two weeks. A total of 16 patients and 14 staff members contracted the virus, while four patients died from the illness.
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