There are no studies, no data, for patients hospitalised outside the ICU that they have a higher mortality rate compared to those patients who are in intensive care,...was proclaimed yesterday by Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Parliament.
However, there is research - apart from the health workers who fight the battle every day and whom the Prime Minister chooses not to listen to - that confirms that in the beds - simple hospital beds the increased mortality is «inevitable».
This follows from a survey that even has been conducted in our country by Greek scientists the period from April 2016 to December 2018 and concerns in 151 patients that were monitored.
As noted in the survey published in 2020 in Greece, entitled: «survival forecast with intubation in simple hospital beds», when there are no ICUs, the mortality of patients receiving mechanical support in simple beds «is almost inevitable».
As recorded in the 151 intubated patients 74 (49%) patients were transferred to the ICU within 0 days. Compared with patients who remained in ordinary wards, patients transferred to the ICU had lower mortality at 90 days (65% versus 97% and 70% versus 99%, respectively).
More specifically, the scientists conclude that when there is no availability of ICUs, mortality for intubated patients in simple chambers is almost at 99%.
So in the need for the whether more ICUs are needed and why it is important the transport of patients to them the five doctors who signed the survey, Dimitris Basoulis, Stavros Liatis, Marina Skouloudi, Georgios Dakos and Petros Sfikakis, respond to Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
The above research was also cited by the neurosurgeon of the General State Hospital of Nice and secretary of OENGE, Panos Papanikolaou.
