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 income without reaching the collapse. The fact of having segregated Pediatrics emergency of conventional helps channel the patient care and streamline the response to the disease in a segment of high incidence population, such as children.
For a correct management of the epidemic of influenza, and to download the pressure on the hospital system, is recommended to vaccinate always and, in case of falling ill, take the usual steps: treating disease with antibiotics, protect from the cold, relax the body, quit to avoid diseases of respiratory type, etc. The first consultation must be with the header and, in case of worsening, medical resort to household emergency and, ultimately, services hospital.
The Barcelona Hospital, opened in 1989, is owned and managed by the cooperative of SCIAS users. As the Declaration Sanità ria medical insurer, is fruit of the health cooperative, a particular model of self-management devised by Dr. Josep Espriu fifty years ago and based on the equality of doctors and users in decision and management bodies. Currently, Declaration Sanità ria has nearly 200,000 insured and an optional table formed by more than 4,000 doctors to its provision. in addition, is official provider of FC Barcelona.
