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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Over the weekend there was an article that mentioned many of the rising covid hospitalizations here in AZ were not because of covid, but rather the people happened to have covid.  The people are asymptomatic, but testing positive when going in for the months long postponed non-emergency surgeries.

So yes, the person has a hospital bed.  And yes, they have covid.  But they're not in that bed because of covid.  I reached out to a couple of nurse friends to get the scoop and they both said they're busy, because there is a nurse shortage here, but it's not covid keeping them busy - I think NW hospital only has 3 covid patients total.  [/quote]
You don't get a hospital bed if you test positive without symptoms. [/quote]

So you are saying that article was incorrect?  That someone who tested positive, without symptoms, would not have the bed for the scheduled procedure, but would instead be sent home?  I wondered the same, which is why I was hoping someone would decipher that article.[/quote]

I think that, unless the procedure is urgent, a patient who tested positive for covid would be sent home.  Both because of the risk of them spreading covid while in the hospital, and because anesthesiology would want the person to be in the best possible case.  There's no way to distinguish between someone who is asymptomatic, and someone who is presymptomatic for whom anesthesia could be dangerous.

Obviously, if the surgery is time sensitive, then they have solutions, but those solutions are resource intensive (e.g. everyone on the team wears an N95, OR is taken out of operation after for deep cleaning) and imperfect (e.g. N95's make communication among team members a little harder, virus can still spread with precautions), so the preference would be to send the patient home.

Having said that, there may be people who come in the night before a major procedure, are tested, and end up staying the night because of when the test results come in, or people whose procedures are urgent enough that they can't wait.[/quote]

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