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According to the Private Hospitals and Nursing Homes Association (PHANA), city hospitals are facing a supply gap of up to 80%. “A small quantity of remdesivir has started coming in the market since Thursday, but it is not sufficient. We are now forced to miss out on some doses to Covid patients under treatment in hospitals,” said PHANA president Dr HM Prasanna.
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With private hospitals seeking the government s help to get the stock, officials have begun talks with manufacturers to step up supply at discounted rates.
Most hospitals treating Covid-19 patients have started to use discretion in administering remdesivir as the antiviral drug has become a scarce commodity with many hospitals either managing with lean stocks or having run out of them.
According to a BBMP officer, all hospitals must have 10% beds for +ve patients in next one week.
BENGALURU: With Covid-19 cases steadily increasing in Bengaluru, a majority of the hospitals treating the infections said most of their beds are occupied and doctors fear demand for ICU beds could throw up infrastructure and human resources challenges in the coming days.
Covid wards in major hospitals in the city are nearly full, despite 80% of the cases in the second wave are asymptomatic and require only home isolation. In a 1,000-bed hospital, 10% of the beds are for intensive care. In Covid care for severe patients, at least 40-50% beds should be in ICUs, doctors said.
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BENGALURU: Critically-ill Covid patients who were on respiratory support had a high incidence of barotrauma, and over half of such patients succumbed to their illness, a new study has found.
The study Severe Covid 19 pneumonia and barotrauma: From the frying pan into the fire was posted as a preprint on medRxiv on February 16.
It retrospectively analysed data of 410 patients between June and November 2020 at Apollo Specialty Hospital in Jayanagar, Bengaluru.
Thirty-eight of 410 patients (9.3%) showed a high incidence of barotrauma during the study period, which refers to injuries in the body caused by increased air or water pressure. In this case, it refers to lung damage similar to tearing of the lung tissue, which can lead to a collection of air around the lungs. This air can also push its way out to below the skin.
Express News Service
BENGALURU: Critically ill Covid-19 patients who were on respiratory support had a high incidence of barotrauma, and over half of them succumbed to their illness, a new study has found.
The study titled, Severe Covid 19 pneumonia and barotrauma: From the frying pan into the fire , was posted as a preprint on medRxiv on February 16. It retrospectively analysed data on 410 patients between June and November 2020 at Apollo Specialty Hospital in the Jayanagar area of Bengaluru.
Thirty-eight of 410 patients (9.3%) showed a high incidence of barotrauma during the study period, which refers to injuries in the body caused by increased air or water pressure. In this case, it refers to lung damage similar to tearing of the lung tissue, which can lead to a collection of air around the lungs. This air can also push its way out to below the skin.
Updated Feb 25, 2021 | 10:35 IST
The trend is visible at Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital as well. There is a rise in patients with cold and cough over the last week. Bengaluru doctors warn of second Covid wave as common cold cases increase | Photo Credit: AP
Bengaluru: Doctors are saying that cold and cough incidences are increasing in the city. They are not ruling out the chances of Covid infection, although the main reason might be sudden rain and fall in temperature.
If the fever stays for over three days and is accompanied by body pain, people must get a Covid test done, according to the doctors. There has been a 10% increase in fever cases over the last week.