Beijing hospital improves treatment for COVID-19 patients

For instance, critically ill patients are transferred to the intensive care unit, and severe patients who still need continuous medical treatment in the later stage shall be transferred to the COVID-19 comprehensive treatment zone. For elderly patients who have underlying diseases and have stable vital signs, if they need medical care, such as oxygen therapy, or having an infusion, the hospital will offer the service. For those patients whose vital signs are stable and can recover at home, they will be discharged directly, so as to save the ICU and emergency beds for critically ill patients.

Guo also reminded that if a patient whose age is above 70 years old and has got the following symptoms at the same time: with blood oxygen less than or equal to 93 percent, having difficulty breathing and blood pressure higher or lower than 30 percent of the standard blood pressure, they need to go to the hospital for treatment.

Zhang Yuhua, deputy head of the hospital's outpatient office, said that the hospital's emergency medicine department continued to operate at a high level, and the number of patients receiving emergency medicine increased to 450-550 per day, as it usually received more than 100 before. The patients who have came recently are mainly the elderly and critically ill with underlying diseases.

Instead of treating patients in the order they queue up, the diagnosis and treatments are carried out according to the severity of their conditions, giving priority to treating critically ill patients, she said.