Hospital de Barcelona fight flu with household emergencies.
El Hospital de Barcelona fight flu with household emergencies. Spain, March 2012.- individualized and influenza epidemic home management minimizes the possible saturation of major hospitals. Household Emergency Department increased 97% the number of visits over last year and the Hospital of Barcelona, with high occupancy rates, attends to patients with complications; the influenza affects especially children and elderly, but most of the cases are mild for adults. For efficient management of the epidemic, please consult the practitioner before resorting to emergency services. Before the flu epidemic with more cases since 2005 in Catalonia, and in order to manage the situation effectively and avoid congestion hospital, Hospital de Barcelona has been strengthened (LDS) household Emergency Department increasing available personnel so that they can provide adequate response to the exponential increase of activity in recent weeks. Essential data of recent years, in the moments of more incidence of flu (week from 13 to 19 February, approximately) there have been tips with 135% increases in the visits of the SUD and month total exceeded 10,500 visits in the province of Barcelona; She has been an average of 363 visits per day. The 13th of February became triple visits than on a normal day. Thus, the most serious cases or they are complications (usually respiratory type) are served in the Hospital of Barcelona, which has increased activity in emergencies and the number of...
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