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AHS postpones some non-urgent surgeries to create additional hospital capacity​

August 27, 2021
EDMONTON — With the rise in COVID-19 cases in the community and the increasing demand on hospital resources, Alberta Health Services (AHS) is taking steps to create additional acute and ICU capacity.

This will result in the postponement of some non-urgent surgeries and procedures to ensure we have the beds and staff required to take care of all patients needing hospital care, including those with COVID-19 as well as other Albertans who are sick or injured.

This proactive approach mirrors similar surgical reductions during previous waves. AHS will maintain emergent, urgent procedures, as well as prioritized cancer surgeries.

These measures will help free up space in our hospitals for patients who need a higher level of care, and allow us to redeploy frontline staff and resources to areas of greatest need.

Any patient whose surgery or procedure is being postponed due to this temporary reduction will be contacted directly by AHS. To date, service adjustments are being planned in two zones.

In the North Zone, approximately 45 elective surgical procedures per week at the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in Grande Prairie will be postponed starting August 30. This will allow the site to increase bed capacity and create a dedicated COVID-19 unit.

In the Edmonton zone, up to 30 per cent of non-urgent surgeries and procedures will be postponed starting August 30.

AHS is currently working through the province’s surgical backlog brought on by the pandemic. For the last two months we have been operating at 100 per cent of pre-COVID-19 surgical levels, and have been performing more non-urgent scheduled surgeries.

All backlogged surgeries in wave one have been rebooked and 96 per cent of all delayed surgeries from wave one, two and three have been completed.

We strongly urge all eligible Albertans to get immunized as quickly as possible, and to continue following preventative measures such as staying home when sick.

Alberta Health Services is the provincial health authority responsible for planning and delivering health supports and services for more than four million adults and children living in Alberta. Its mission is to provide a patient-focused, quality health system that is accessible and sustainable for all Albertans.

https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/news/Page16153.aspx

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Heard immunity will kick in, just has to run its course though unvaccinated and burn itself out.

I have a coworker for India, he was telling me how there is very few cases now in deli, they think that 80-90% of the population got exposed to covid.
 
pdfish said:
To be fair, this conservative government had us all fooled, it is the worst government I can remember in my lifetime, a little worse than the NDP that they replaced. But please don’t paint voting conservative with such a broad stroke. FYI it appears to be working for Sweden, and they are far from conservative
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Sweden death rate /1million = 1440, neighbours Finland = 183, Norway = 149, Belarus (same population) 395.
Their model was poorly executed and they said as much during their big January wave - they were pretty much same level lockdown as BC for a big chunk of it (our death rate is 396). Even Alberta did way better than Sweden with death rate of 540.
 
Cleaned up the SFBC version of "Friday Night Fights" aka, the Covid Thread. Keep the finger pointing and political talk out of here and all is good.
 
Deewar25 said:
Sweden death rate /1million = 1440, neighbours Finland = 183, Norway = 149, Belarus (same population) 395.
Their model was poorly executed and they said as much during their big January wave - they were pretty much same level lockdown as BC for a big chunk of it (our death rate is 396). Even Alberta did way better than Sweden with death rate of 540.
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Been a while since I saw much traffic about Sweden. Sure was a hot theme a year ago among the naysayers here. Subsequently shown up as a serious fail.

Australia and NZ were next to be held up as the model to follow, keep everyone out and all will be fine. But to maintain their covid zero concept they have to keep instituting snap lockdowns that are bringing public confidence - and therefore the economy - to its knees.

Australian citizens are not permitted to leave their own country unless granted an exemption by the federal govt. And earlier this month they terminated the automatic exemption for dual citizens like myself. So to visit my aging parents I would have to endure two weeks of hotel quarantine enforced by the federal police, and then potentially be stuck there if the govt decided it wasn't essential that I leave again. State governments close their borders whenever neighboring states have a bump in cases, and we're not talking about roadside signage here. This is barricades manned by state police allowing freight trucks and medical deliveries through but nobody else.

Seriously we need look no further than our own province if we want to see a fair balance between personal freedoms, employment and community health impact. We've had our kids in school more days than any other province, lower unemployment and no true lockdown. Hasn't been perfect but show me anywhere else that is.
 
sly_karma said:
Seriously we need look no further than our own province if we want to see a fair balance between personal freedoms, employment and community health impact. We've had our kids in school more days than any other province, lower unemployment and no true lockdown. Hasn't been perfect but show me anywhere else that is.
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and yet some are still fear mongering about high case count and hospitals going on diversion.

despite the fact that we have some of the highest vaccinated rates in the world. With some areas over 90% and the most vulnerable even with higher rates.

what’s the alternative? Lock everything down

we also have a higher rate of vaccinated then all the experts said was possible. We have exceeded it.

that’s why I’m not really on bord with this vaccine passport bs
 
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The numbers game is still the issue. The 20% unvaxed is close to a million people in BC. Still enough people that letting it go unchecked would overwhelm the hospitals and take a big dent out of the economy. Business and government wouldn't function if 50,000 people at once were off sick or isolating due to exposure. And that scenario could go for weeks, a million is a lot of people.
 
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wildmanyeah said:
and yet some are still fear mongering about high case count and hospitals going on diversion.

despite the fact that we have some of the highest vaccinated rates in the world. With some areas over 90% and the most vulnerable even with higher rates.

what’s the alternative? Lock everything down
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the fear mongering likely relates to the fact that you need pretty much 4-6 weeks to get a message across with this. Do we do like Florida and Texas and wait until ICU's are full and then sound the alarm, or do you spread the message while there is still room, in anticipation that the trend will lead to disaster if left unchecked?

None of us like this one bit, the fact that kids under 20 is the group with the highest total of cases down south (and many are now ending up in hospital with delta) though should concern going back into school. We need to keep things under control.

I have a bad feeling in general the world is destination f*ed with everything I see and it starts with the unvax.
 
sly_karma said:
The numbers game is still the issue. The 20% unvaxed is close to a million people in BC. Still enough people that letting it go unchecked would overwhelm the hospitals and take a big dent out of the economy. Business and government wouldn't function if 50,000 people at once were off sick or isolating due to exposure. And that scenario could go for weeks, a million is a lot of people.
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yeah but that scenario does not play out with a high vaccinated rate it can’t circulate the same. Certainly not with the efficacy of the Pfizer vaccine at 86%.

It doesn’t help that the unvaccinated all like to hang out togeather in the same towns.

I just don’t see some apocalyptic scenario playing out if everything they have been saying is true about the vaccine.
 
Deewar25 said:
or do you spread the message while there is still room, in anticipation that the trend will lead to disaster if left unchecked?
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i would agree with this if our vaccinated rate was not as high as it is and that’s why I was very concerned with our slow roll out.
 
Deewar25 said:
None of us like this one bit, the fact that kids under 20 is the group with the highest total of cases down south (and many are now ending up in hospital with delta) though should concern going back into school. We need to keep things under control.
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while this is of big concern to me I don’t think Bonnie Henry will put our children at risk do you?
 
Deewar25 said:
of course much lower than us, but still 1.6 million in BC not vaccinated, that isn't a small number!
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If the vaccines work as advertised the unvaccinated get protection from the vaccinated. The virus can’t spread the same

this is why bc has changed a lot of is exposure protocol. I bet you did not know now that if a close contact of yours gets covid you don’t need to self isolate or get tested if you show no symptoms and are vaccinated.

clearly our experts in public health are not expecting a huge surge
 
 
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That's because they already explained the plan moving into an endemic. Hinshaw stated that case will jump until mid September & then start to burn out. I'm glad they are not listening to the screaming Karen's and self taught virologist. This 4th wave has to cycle and burn its self out. If it dosen't go as planned at least we are not repeating the same thing over and over again.

AB cases are about 10-15% higher than BC. The sky is not falling. Also AB has less pepole in ICU then BC. (Not that it matters).
 
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Missed todays vax van, no worries there is one on Sunday.

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