Changes to limits on critical care support people in Saskatchewan
Oct 12, 2021 | 10:38 AM
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The Saskatchewan Health Authority says “the extremely high number of patients” in critical care units means there will be changes to the policy on the number of family members or support people allowed to be with them.
Intensive care patients will be able to designate only two essential family or support people, with just one person present at a time.
There is no change to end-of-life family presence, which still allows two designated people at a time, in ICUs or elsewhere.
The authority says there are currently more patients in ICUs across the province than there have been at any other time during the pandemic, and that the vast majority of them are COVID-19 positive.
