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Biotech / Medical : Coronavirus / COVID-19 Pandemic
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Amid COVID-19 surge, L.A. County ambulance crews told
not to transport patients who have little chance of survival
By: Los Angeles Times, Gene Kang
Posted: Jan 4, 2021 / 11:07 AM PST
Updated: Jan 4, 2021 / 02:57 PM PST

The situation in L.A. County hospitals is so critical that ambulance
crews have been advised to try to cut back on their use of oxygen
and not to bring to hospitals patients who have virtually no chance
of survival. Officials now say they need to focus on patients with
a greater chance of surviving.

The measures were taken as circumstances were expected to
worsen in coming weeks, when patients sickened over the
Christmas holiday will need treatment, leaving officials desperate
for ways to increase capacity and triage care to focus on the
sickest patients.

Hospitals are moving to rapidly discharge ill patients who, in
less-crowded situations, would normally be allowed to stay for
continued observation. That has helped, but officials fear the
flood of new patients — many with COVID-19 — is outpacing
their ability to move less critical patients out.

In a sign of the strain the surge is putting on critical medical
supplies needed for severely ill patients, the L.A. County
Emergency Medical Services Agency issued a directive
Monday that ambulance crews should conserve oxygen
by administering it only to patients who had oxygen
saturation levels below 90%

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