Overwhelmed by the sheer number of COVID-19 cases, doctors in New York are adapting and loosening normal protocols to ease the strain on emergency rooms.
NEW YORK - Some coronavirus patients who would have been admitted into the emergency department at a New York hospital are being sent home with an oxygen-monitoring device as the city's medical system struggles to reserve resources for only the sickest people.
"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. No patient in the program is known to have died at home as of Wednesday, but about 15 percent were asked to return to hospital to be admitted for inpatient care, a hospital spokeswoman said.
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