{"id":12222,"date":"2020-04-18T19:05:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T23:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/?p=12222"},"modified":"2020-05-20T19:08:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T23:08:12","slug":"hospitals-scramble-for-dialysis-machines-amid-surge-in-covid-19-patients-with-kidney-failure-report-thehill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/hospitals-scramble-for-dialysis-machines-amid-surge-in-covid-19-patients-with-kidney-failure-report-thehill\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospitals scramble for dialysis machines amid surge in COVID-19 patients with kidney failure: report | TheHill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div property=\"content:encoded\">\n<p><span>Hospitals are scrambling for dialysis machines amid the surge of COVID-19 patients experiencing kidney failure, according to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/18\/us\/coronavirus-live-news.html?action=click&#038;module=Spotlight&#038;pgtype=Homepage#link-780048ff\"><span>New York Times.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those suffering from severe illness from COVID-19 experience differing levels of organ failure.<\/p>\n<p>Kidney specialists estimate that 20 to 40 percent of patients in intensive care for complications associated with a COVID-19 infection suffered kidney failure and needed emergency dialysis, according to the Times.<\/p>\n<p>There is still no research that suggests kidneys are particularly targeted by the disease.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the Times, hospitals lack both the necessary equipment and trained nurses needed to administer dialysis on a large number of patients. Medical facilities in hot spots such as New York City, Boston, New Orleans, Chicago and Detroit are experiencing a growing demand for kidney treatment and a lack of resources to administer it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper reported that hospitals are not only lacking machines to perform the kidney treatment, but fluids and other supplies needed for dialysis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hospitals have reported a shortage of medical equipment for the past month including personal protective equipment and ventilators, and have requested resources that have grown scarce while treating the respiratory virus.<\/p>\n<p><span data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a data-nid=\"261287\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\">President Trump<\/a><span id=\"rollover-people-261287\"><span><span><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/thumb_100\/public\/trumpdonald_070117getty.jpg?itok=zNbH56or\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" width=\"100\"><\/img><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\">Donald John Trump<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/493516-wuhan-lab-denies-claims-that-the-coronavirus-originated-there\">Wuhan lab denies claims of coronavirus origination<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/finance\/493512-banks-say-they-ran-out-of-ppp-funding-within-minutes\">Banks say they ran out of PPP funding &#8216;within minutes&#8217;<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/493511-trump-defends-testing-capabilities-blasts-critics-during-wh-briefing\">Trump defends testing capabilities, blasts critics during WH briefing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\">MORE<span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> announced earlier this month that major corporations like General Motors and 3M were contracted under the authority of the Defense Production Act to make ventilators and N95 masks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/news\/493509-hospitals-scramble-for-dialysis-machines-amid-surge-in-covid-19-patients-with\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitals are scrambling for dialysis machines amid the surge of COVID-19 patients experiencing kidney failure, according to the New York Times.Those suffering from severe illness from COVID-19 experience differing levels of organ failure.Kidney specialists estimate that 20 to 40 percent of patients in intensive care for complications associated with a COVID-19 infection suffered kidney failure&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[120,162,161,157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16407,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12222\/revisions\/16407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}