Some coronavirus patients who would have been admitted into the emergency department at a New York hospital are being sent home with an ...
FILE PHOTO: Crates of Oxygen containers are seen stored outside Wyckoff Heights Medical Center during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York, U.S., April 6, 2020.
"Some of these patients might have been on the borderline of admission," Dr. Rahul Sharma, who is overseeing the program as the chief of emergency medicine at Presbyterian's Weill Cornell Medical Center, said in an interview.An oximeter is a small electronic device that clips onto a fingertip to indirectly measure the oxygen saturation of a patient's blood.
No patient in the program is known to have died at home as of Wednesday, but about 15 per cent were asked to return to hospital to be admitted for inpatient care, a hospital spokeswoman said.At least two other hospital systems outside of New York unveiled similar new programs using oximeters in late March. Doctors at other hospitals said Presbyterian's approach could have benefits for patients with a disease about which they still have much to learn.
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