One of the nation’s top hospitals announced on Thursday, Nov. 10, that it is at capacity and is reducing elective surgeries due to an unusually high number of patients with respiratory syncyt…
One of the nation’s top hospitals announced on Thursday, Nov. 10, that it is at capacity and is reducing elective surgeries due to an unusually high number of patients with respiratory syncytial virus .Massachusetts General for Children, located in Boston, said that in the first 10 days of November there have been more than 1,000 reported cases of RSV. In the entire month of October, there were about 2,000 reported cases of RSV.
He added that there are no pediatric ICU beds currently available at the hospital and that there are “seven patients that are outside the ICU that would normally be transferred into the ICU.”Getty Images/iStockphoto As a result, some non-emergency surgeries are being delayed to free up doctors and hospital space for emergency treatment.
He explained that “the youngest patients are at the highest risk of needing hospitalization,” particularly those under the age of one — and that these hospital stays are usually brief.
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