There was a post yesterday about delaying elective surgeries due to alleged zero capacity of ICU beds in Houston. Well since I have one coming up, I called the hospital, talked to both medical and admin staff in charge of the surgery and was absolutely assured multiple times that if anything goes wrong, they have a spot ready for me. Maybe it was a lie, maybe not but take it for what it's worth.

Yeah I'm guessing some places are real bad, some places are "bad but we can find a spot for you" and some places are fine.

Anecdotal, but hospital in Fort Worth - friend had a seizure and was taken to hospital. People are very much in beds out in the hallways, but they did find a trauma room for him.

But docs have said even though they like to keep seizure patients overinght, they are likely sending him home tonight because they don't have a bed for him.

Octavarium said:

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There was a post yesterday about delaying elective surgeries due to alleged zero capacity of ICU beds in Houston. Well since I have one coming up, I called the hospital, talked to both medical and admin staff in charge of the surgery and was absolutely assured multiple times that if anything goes wrong, they have a spot ready for me. Maybe it was a lie, maybe not but take it for what it's worth.

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It seems likely that multiple physicians on this board are lying for dramatic effect.

(to be clear, that is sarcasm)

Diyala Nick said:

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Octavarium said:

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There was a post yesterday about delaying elective surgeries due to alleged zero capacity of ICU beds in Houston. Well since I have one coming up, I called the hospital, talked to both medical and admin staff in charge of the surgery and was absolutely assured multiple times that if anything goes wrong, they have a spot ready for me. Maybe it was a lie, maybe not but take it for what it's worth.

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It seems likely that multiple physicians on this board are speaking in absolutes lying for dramatic effect.

(to be clear, that is sarcasm)

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It can be a day to day thing. My wife did a kidney transplant the other day and there was no ICU room so they did the post op in the OR for about 4 hours until an ICU bed opened up.

So keep in mind when someone says "ICU beds are full" they mean "ICU beds were full at my hospital and the others I checked on at a given cut in time".

They have plenty of beds. "Staffed" bed shortage is likely the real issue, if this is even true.