The few individual coronary patients who have received two vaccinations in intensive care have been such that their condition has been significantly affected by another serious illness.
In power departments The number of existing corona patients has started to grow rapidly in Uusimaa and throughout Finland.
“Time is starting to be on the water line again,” says the chief physician of intensive care Tero Varpula Jorvi Hospital in Espoo.
Almost all patients are still unvaccinated. The few individual coronary patients who have received two vaccinations in intensive care have been such that their condition has been significantly affected by another serious illness.
Nor does the situation seem to ease quickly: hospital district experts estimate that the incidence of coronary heart disease in unvaccinated adults will continue to cause congestion in intensive care units for a long time to come.
“Nothing solves the situation other than the highest possible vaccine coverage,” Varpula says.
On Monday The intensive care units of the Helsinki University Central Hospital (Hyks) had 16 corona patients and a total of 69 in hospital care.
In late summer, the number of intensive care patients in the Hyks region remained below five for a long time, but recent weeks have again seen a new increase in patient numbers. In addition to the Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District (Hus), the special area of responsibility includes Päijät-Häme, Kymenlaakso and South Karelia.
The average age of coronary patients in intensive care has decreased in recent weeks by a few years, now it is less than 55 years in Uusimaa. The vast majority of patients are still between the ages of 30 and 70.
Unlike last winter, for example, it is more difficult for coronary patients to move to other parts of Finland. This is because their number in intensive care is currently growing throughout Finland.
There would also no longer be a desire to act in the same way as in the early stages of a pandemic, when, under duress, major surgeries related to other diseases were postponed to the future. As society opens up and people move more, the number of different accidents also increases.
“We are particularly concerned about this. There are still coronary clusters of unvaccinated people all over Finland. It is a really difficult decision if other treatments have to be reduced again, ”says Varpula.
So the sparrow appeals to people to go take the vaccine. He also recalls that the pandemic is not over yet.
Pandemian The care debt for other illnesses incurred during the period is still high.
In the statistics at the end of August, the number of people waiting for an urgent examination and treatment at the Hus outpatient clinic for a long time was slightly higher than a year earlier. The number of people waiting for a place in the ward for a long time, on the other hand, decreased from the corresponding period in 2020.
At the end of August, more than 3,000 people had been waiting in the Hus area for more than six months. The number is a third less than a year earlier. Hus had almost 20,000 people waiting for access to the ward for more than three months. The highest number of queuers was related to surgery and eye diseases.
Nearly 30,000 people were waiting for access to non-urgent outpatient research and treatment at the end of August. More than 6,000 of them had been in line for more than three months.
Hus is working to break up queues, for example, by offering more remote receptions. For example, at the Peijas Hospital emergency room in Vantaa let’s try now video reception for some patients.
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