Open AccessJAAM nationwide survey on the response to the first wave of COVID‐19 in Japan. Part II: how did medical institutions overcome the first wave and how should they prepare for the future?
Author(s) -
Oda Jun,
Muguruma Takashi,
Matsuyama Shigenari,
Tanabe Seizan,
Nishimura Tetsuro,
Sugawara Yoko,
Ogura Shinji
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
acute medicine and surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2052-8817
DOI - 10.1002/ams2.592
Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , medical emergency , medicine , virology , outbreak , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty)
In this nationwide survey, among patients who were discharged or died, the mortality rate of COVID‐19 in this study was 4.5% of all hospitalized patients and 14% in severe patients, which means one of seven severe patients died. Medical staff suffered from personal protective equipment shortages. Restriction of intensive care unit admissions, elective surgeries, and non‐COVID‐19 emergency patients (regardless of the number of accepted COVID‐19 patients) occurred.