The Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services Agency told EMS employees Monday to only administer supplemental oxygen if a patient s saturation levels dip below 90% to conserve depleting oxygen supplies. Paramedics were also told not to transport adult heart attack patients to the hospital unless they can restore spontaneous circulation on site to focus care on patients who are more likely to survive.
Los Angeles is facing an unprecedented surge in coronavirus patients that is pushing area hospitals to the brink. Public health officials warn the already dire situation is projected to worsen in January. Many hospitals have reached a point of crisis and are having to make very tough decisions about patient care, Dr. Christina Ghaly, the county s director of health services, said at a press briefing Monday. She urged residents to avoid the emergency room unless they re in need of serious medical attention.
The county this week established 19 vaccination sites across the county, where the shots are being administered to high-priority health care workers who don't work in acute-care hospitals or skilled nursing facilities, where shots are being provided in-house.
LOS ANGELES — The coronavirus crisis battering Los Angeles County’s medical system is reaching increasingly desperate levels, with health care providers running low on equipment, ambulance operators being told not to bring patients who have virtually no chance of survival to hospitals, a
Officials in San Diego County on Tuesday reported a cumulative total of 32 cases of the new, potentially more contagious variant of the coronavirus that has also spread rapidly in England.
The variant, known as B.1.1.7, was first identified in a virus sample taken from a San Diego County man in his
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