Korona: onko tarpeeksi dialyysilaitteita

Jos nyt varulta ajoissa tarkistettaisiin hengityskoneiden riittävyyden lisäksi dialyysilaitteiden riittävyys
But now, doctors are sounding an alarm about an unexpected and perhaps overlooked crisis: a surge in Covid-19 patients with kidney failure that is leading to shortages of machines, supplies and staff required for emergency dialysis.
The disease is also shutting down some patients’ kidneys, posing yet another series of life-and-death calculations for doctors who must ferry a limited supply of specialized dialysis machines from one patient in kidney failure to the next. All the while fearing they may not be able to hook up everyone in time to save them.
“Nothing like this has ever been seen in terms of the number of people needing kidney replacement therapy,” he said.
Kidney specialists now estimate that 20 percent to 40 percent of I.C.U. patients with the coronavirus suffered kidney failure and needed emergency dialysis, according to Dr. Alan Kliger, a nephrologist at Yale University School of Medicine who is co-chairman of a Covid-19 response team for the American Society of Nephrology
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/health/kidney-dialysis-coronavirus.h…