省点气，别送了！_风闻

根据美媒CNN的报道：

由于Covid-19大流行，南加州医院的重症监护室几乎满员，洛杉矶县紧急医疗服务机构（EMS）指示救护人员不要将生存机会很小的患者运送到医院，并节省使用氧气。

洛杉矶和南加州正在应对该国最严重的新型冠状病毒疫情之一。上个月，随着越来越多的人被送往医院寻求Covid-19的治疗，ICU的床位容量暴跌至0％。

据该机构称，现在，许多医疗机构根本没有容纳没有生存机会的患者的空间。

根据县卫生数据，截至周一晚上，洛杉矶有7544人因Covid-19而住院，只有17张成人ICU成人床位。由于床位短缺，该县环境服务署表示，尽管进行了复苏努力，但心跳停止的患者不应再被运送到医院。

EMS备忘录说，如果没有呼吸或脉搏迹象，EMS将继续进行至少20分钟的复苏。如果在复苏期后患者保持稳定，则患者将被送往医院。如果患者在现场被宣布死亡或无法恢复脉搏，则医护人员将不再将尸体运送到医院。

氧气短缺：由于Covid-19，洛杉矶和附近的圣华金河谷缺乏氧气，这给系统造成了巨大压力，并迫使医护人员节省了供应。

EMS表示，为了维持血液正常循环至人体运作所需的器官和组织，氧气饱和度至少为90％就足够了。

加州州长加文·纽瑟姆（Gavin Newsom）上周成立了一个工作队来解决这一问题。它正在与当地和州的合作伙伴合作，以帮助为氧气罐加气，并将其运送到最需要的医院和设施中。

With intensive care units at Southern California hospitals nearly full because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services Agency (EMS) has directed ambulance crews not to transport patients with little chance of survival to hospitals, and to conserve the use of oxygen.

Los Angeles and Southern California are dealing with one of the country’s worst outbreaks of the novel coronavirus. ICU bed capacity plunged to 0% in Southern California last month, as more and more people were admitted to hospital seeking treatment for Covid-19. 

Now, many medical facilities simply do not have the space to take in patients who do not have a chance of survival, according to the agency.

As of Monday evening, there were 7,544 people hospitalized in Los Angeles due to Covid-19 and just 17 available adult ICU beds, according to county health data. Due to the shortage of beds, the county EMS said patients whose hearts have stopped, despite efforts of resuscitation, should no longer be transported to hospitals.

If there are no signs of breathing or a pulse, EMS will continue to perform resuscitation for at least 20 minutes, the EMS memo said. If the patient is stabilized after the period of resuscitation, the patient would then be transported to a hospital. If the patient is declared dead at the scene or if no pulse can be restored, paramedics will no longer transport the body to the hospital.

Oxygen shortage: A shortage of oxygen in Los Angeles and the nearby San Joaquin Valley, thanks to Covid-19, is putting immense pressure on the system and forcing paramedics to conserve the supply.

In order to maintain normal circulation of the blood to organs and tissue needed for the body to function, EMS said an oxygen saturation of at least 90% will be sufficient. 

California Gov. Gavin Newsom formed a task force to address the issue last week. It is working with local and state partners to help refill oxygen tanks and mobilize them to hospitals and facilities most in need.