Children’s hospitals across Ontario have reported a surge of critically ill pediatric patients, which has led to unprecedented demand in emergency rooms – forcing health care facilities to reallocate resources to manage the volume of patients.
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The President of Sick Kids, Dr. Ronald Kohn said the hospital had “no choice” but to prioritize “urgent, urgent and time-sensitive surgeries” from November 14 in order to maintain intensive care beds for an influx of patients. “This decision was not taken lightly. The reduction in surgical activity will allow us to support areas of the hospital that need help managing increasing patient volume and acuity, including intensive care units, pediatrics and the Emergency Department,” Dr. Cohn said in a statement. Story continues below ad The hospital said its management teams would contact affected patients. The hospital’s Chief Medical Officer told Global News that the province is facing a “pediatric crisis”, one he has not experienced in his 18-year medical career. Current trend
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“It fills every ward in the hospital,” said Dr. Lennox Huang. “Our ICU is almost at capacity, we see that in our emergency department and our general pediatric floor as well.”
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The hospital created a command center to monitor patients within the hospital and those treated in the wider community in order to balance the number of patients who need to be admitted to the emergency department. In recent days, the hospital’s intensive care unit was 127 percent overcrowded, with more than half the patients in the ICU requiring ventilators. Dr. Huang says that while some surgeries may be delayed by a few months without a dramatic impact on the child’s well-being, other patients may suffer as a result. 2:18 Pediatric ICUs across Ontario over capacity “We have an incredible waiting list of kids who need surgery, and when you overlap that kind of crisis, it means you’re delaying it even more,” Huang said. Story continues below ad “This is going to affect the lives of these kids.” If you are affected by this decision, please contact us: [email protected] © 2022 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.
