Patients with severe dengue fever rushed to the hospital

Despite intensive treatment, the condition is still complicated, constant dialysis is required, intubation of ventilator and infusion of blood preparations.

He is the most severe of the seven dengue cases being treated at the Intensive Care – Adult Anti-Toxicology (ICU) Department for Tropical Diseases.

Patients here are in a very critical group, often in a coma, dependent on survival devices and need comprehensive medical care.

“We have to race against time to save the sick,” said experts, but there are still 8 cases that do not survive.

In the past three weeks, the number of cases of dengue fever and severe re-shock to the ICU has tripled compared to before, about 6-7 people per day, overloading doctors.

The number of dengue cases in increased rapidly from mid-April, equal to the peak of the epidemic in 2019 and 117 times higher than the same period last year, leading to an increase in the number of serious cases and deaths.

Currently, the total cumulative number of cases is 16,057 – the most in the country.

Not only in the ICU department, more than half of Tropical Hospital is also overloaded because patients with severe dengue fever are hospitalized.

Like Internal Medicine A, 58 beds are close together, spilling out into the corridor that is full of patients.

They are in the group at high risk of transfer, must be closely monitored by medical staff and family members.

In the afternoon of June 21, there were up to 5 cases of shortness of breath, abdominal pain, anxiety, low blood pressure, sweating …

Causing more than 10 doctors here to rush like a shuttle to handle, give infusions, breathe oxygen through the nasal frame …

Doctors said that the hospital is the last line of treatment of infectious diseases in the South, with a scale of 550 beds, but there are up to 306 cases of dengue fever being treated (accounting for more than 55% of the total hospital beds), 44 serious cases (about 14%).

On average, 200-300 people with dengue fever come to the doctor every day, 50-60 cases are hospitalized.

“The most worrying thing is that many people come to the doctor late, when there are warning signs of serious illness such as lethargy, abdominal pain, vomiting a lot, bleeding … It makes the medical staff a lot harder to treat,” according to experts.

At the same time, the increased number of family members and patients also puts pressure on infrastructure, security and order and quality of service.

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