North Texas is concluding yet another week of surging COVID-19 cases that are threatening to overwhelm the area’s understaffed hospital systems. At least...
An extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, machine pulls blood outside of a patient's body to oxygenate and ventilate it. The ECMO machines are new tools in Parkland's fight against COVID-19.North Texas is concluding yet another week of surging COVID-19 cases that are threatening to overwhelm the area’s understaffed hospital systems.
The critical difference between what hospitals are dealing with now compared to before the omicron-variant surge is the increasing percentage of patients positive for COVID-19 — and the number of available staff members to take care of them, he said. Some COVID-19 patients — about 30% at Parkland — are positive for the virus but are primarily hospitalized for something else, Chang said. With previous variants, around 10% to 20% of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 fell in that category.
Some areas of the health system are seeing more patients than others, including emergency departments, which are fielding sharp increases in the number of people coming to hospitals for COVID-19 testing, Love said. The North Texas trauma service area, which encompasses 19 counties, is down about 15% in staff because of COVID-19 or other illnesses, Love said.
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