‘It’s like something out of a movie’: AU Health’s ICU situation forces new measures
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - AU Health is pushing forward with a plan to convert the intensive care unit at the Children’s Hospital of Georgia into an ICU for COVID-19 patients as the spike in positive cases continues to rise.
Moving COVID-19 patients to CHOG is one of the last phases in the hospital’s COVID-19 surge plan.
AU Health’s Dr. Jose Vazquez says there are days in the ER where 30 or 40 people are waiting on a hospital bed. He says there’s basically four COVID units now spread out across the hospital to manage patients.
“It looks like something out of a movie,” Vazquez said.
Vazquez, chief of infectious diseases, says AU Health has patients ranging from age 12 to 90 across COVID units spread out across the hospital.
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