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Swine Flu: Demand For Critical Care Beds Could Outstrip Supply By Up To 130 Per Cent In England
Hospitals on the South East Coast, and in the South West, East of England and East Midlands, are the worst hit.
The research, fast-tracked for online publication by Anesthesia, suggests that demand for critical care beds could outstrip supply by up to 130 per cent, with up to 20 per cent excess demand for ventilators in some regions.
"Any predictions need to be based on the most accurate information available at the time and we recognize that we are in the early stages of the pandemic" says Dr. Ari Ercole, a member of the research group led by Professor David Menon from the University of Cambridge.
"However, based on figures provided by the ten regional health authorities and using the FLUSURGE model developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the USA, we can see that hospitals would face massive excess demand even if the pandemic lasted an optimistic twelve weeks.
"Pediatric intensive care facilities for children under 15 would be quickly exhausted, as they make up 10 per cent of current provision but could face 30 per cent of the demand for pandemic related beds.
"Early experience of the present strain suggests that the attack rate is particularly high in the young and that this virus may severely compromise the immune systems of people who contract it."
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