An intensive care doctor believes Australia's hospital system will be able to cope with the increase in hospital and intensive care admissions linked to coronavirus but maintained it was important to monitor the number closely over the coming days.
An intensive care doctor stressed Australia is"well prepared" as hospitalisations and intensive care admission rise in New South Wales amid soaring Omicron coronavirus cases.
Doctor Anthony Holley stressed intensive care units across Australia were"well prepared" for admissions as cases continued to soar across the country. Picture: Supplied "That said, there’s a lot of unknowns .. we just have to carefully manage and utilise all the strategies put in place to deliver the best possible critical care for Australians."
There are 2,000 fully staffed ICU beds ready across Australia if the pandemic worsened. Picture: Getty"The kinds of things we use is respiratory rate, saturation imagery to look at oxygen levels in patient’s blood and in the blood pressure and other organ systems," he said.
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