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SASKATOON -- The Saskatchewan Health Authority has put together a triage committee that would help doctors decide which COVID-19 patients would get a ventilator if hospitals become flooded with severely ill patients. “Considering where we are, it is appropriate and responsible to have a set of guidelines on how a health organization and how health care teams can make a good decision at all…

The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is refusing to provide details about its supply of personal protective equipment (PPE), hospital beds and ICU beds.  The province also declined to share what its COVID-19 modelling shows about the possible progression of the virus throughout Saskatchewan when asked by CBC earlier this week.  Shortly after CBC published this story, Premier Scott…

For the first time since coronavirus infections exploded in the small town of Lodi, Lombardy, the northern Italian region that would become the epicentre of the European outbreak, a remarkable sight has appeared in the hospital there: a few empty beds. Health-care workers continue to issue strong warnings that Italy is far from being out of the woods, and on Wednesday…

New figures suggest the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) has secured some additional ventilators but still has hundreds more on order to treat people in a potential surge of serious COVID-19 cases. In critical cases, COVID-19 attacks the lungs and restricts breathing to the point where a patient needs a ventilator to stay alive. Early last week, the health authority said it had 91…

The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is planning to form triage committees that would decide who gets life-saving treatment if COVID-19 floods the health system with too many severely ill patients. The committees would apply a range of factors to ration scarce equipment, including ventilators that allow patients to breathe. They would decide when to withdraw that treatment to save more lives.…