Rome, April 6 (beraking latest news Salute) – A short greeting, a caress or a glance, to make it clear that you are there even if for a few minutes. A solace in the battle against the virus. This is what happens in the Covid intensive care units that allow relatives and family members to visit hospitalized patients. “Unfortunately still a few in Italy, we left in November of last year and in 5 months we have registered about 500 visits. No cases of positivity that are important from the outside and found in the visitors”. Paolo Malacarne, head of resuscitation at the Cisanello hospital in Pisa, one of the few in the country that admits visits to Covid resuscitation, tells beraking latest news Salute.
“Many colleagues write to us to understand how we did it – he adds – and this could be a first step. Last year it could have been justifiable not to open for visits, but today we have protective devices and we know a lot about the virus, they cannot be kept closed. to visits “.
What are the reasons that hold back the other hospitals? “Here we have an intensive care with 8 beds, therefore small and easily manageable – replies Malacarne – It is probable that a larger hospital with 30 beds in Covid resuscitation will have more problems. We give permission to 4 family members every other day, let us enter (before it was 30 minutes, today up to an hour) they protect themselves like us and enter staggered. There has never been a problem – he specifies – and we do not ask for or do the swab, who has a close relative in resuscitation is traced with the screening by the regional service. I would say that after 5 months we can say that there is no negative element in this initiative “.
“I can understand that this type of model can make daily work difficult and deserves a greater commitment on the part of the staff – he highlights – But in our opinion there is a right of relatives to see their loved one positive, often in serious conditions, which maybe he was taken away by ambulance and that you risk never seeing again. In this case the Tuscany Region already in December passed a resolution in which it systematized the entry of family members into public structures. This helped us and many hospitals in Toscana have launched our same model “.
How do patients admitted to intensive care respond? “There is a positive effect that is the same that we experience in non-Covid resuscitation. For years – says the head physician – we have been bringing relatives in and this even before saying that the human aspect of care is fundamental, the presence of the family member with rare exceptions he calms the patient and motivates him against Covid. I have increasingly had the impression that Covid terrifies people so, even more so, opening intensive care to visits is a therapeutic action “.
According to Malacarne, the model of the hospital in Pisa “can be exported throughout Italy” and in fact “many phone calls from colleagues have arrived, since we specialists are part of the ICU network. They ask us for tips to overcome some small problems and we we give them “.
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