Posted on Aug 20, 2021
Vaccination Status May Be Considered To Get ICU Beds At Dallas-Area Hospitals If Covid Spread...
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Scott Shuttleworth - Public and private hospitals can't deny emergency care. That's true. Private hospitals can deny non emergency care.
However this doesn't say anything about turning people away. It says how they'll prioritize care with covid.
However this doesn't say anything about turning people away. It says how they'll prioritize care with covid.
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It's a terrible statement that we have to prioritize treatment for patients. It's like we are running MASH units or mass casualty incidents and have to triage. So much of this could have been prevented.
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Some may argue about COVID vaccination already preventing most hospitalizations, but they need to read the article. Issue is about the system is overwhelmed and likelihood of survival due to limited resources for patients.
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Lt Col Scott Shuttleworth
The secondary and tertiary effects of this are like a friend of our family last week. His wife saw that he was having a stroke...got him to one of the major trauma centers in the state...they couldn't take him the the ER so they helo evac'd him to another hospital for full treatment...he died enroute. That and other stories from EMT/ParaMedics that are picking up car wreck victims, heart attack victims, gunshots and have no where to take them.
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SrA John Monette
Lt Col Scott Shuttleworth - patients having to use ambulance gurneys instead of beds, leaving the ambulances no way to transport other patients.
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