Generator failure during Hurricane Ida at Thibodaux hospital prompts scramble to move ICU patients
The partial loss of generator power Sunday at a Louisiana hospital in the path of Hurricane Ida sent doctors and nurses scrambling to keep patients breathing as they moved them to a different area.
Patients at Thibodaux Regional Health System in Lafourche Parish were bagged by hand, meaning hospital staff manually pushed air in and out of their lungs in place of mechanical ventilation, while they were transported to another floor, according to officials with the Louisiana Department of Health. Other generators in the hospital are still in working order, according to Dr. Joe Kanter, the state's chief health officer, as workers and patients there continue to ride out the storm.
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Patients had to be transferred from the ICU to the hospital's post-anesthesia care unit using the hospital's stairwell, Magee and Zeringue said. It isn't clear how many patients were moved.
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They were bagged by hand while being moved down a stairway to another floor. this is serious. I have read that extra generators were sent to the hospitals, yet the winds knocked this one out.
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Those 2 hospitals where they did that and major triage. 
