SALT LAKE CITY — Primary Children's Hospital announced Monday that about 50 elective, prescheduled surgeries that require overnight stays for patients will be delayed so the hospital can treat the massive influx of children who are sick with RSV and other respiratory illnesses.
The hospital said in a statement that in order to "provide excellent care, and to ensure that staffing and resources are best able to meet patient needs during this busy time, the hospital is delaying as many of this week's prescheduled, nonemergency procedures and surgeries that would require an inpatient stay as possible.".
The emergency room has set records for the number of children being seen in a single day for two of the last four days, Pavia said, causing it to be "extraordinarily busy." The emergency room team has been stepping up to meet the demand of patients, but there is limited space available for patients, which led to the decision in delaying those elective, prescheduled surgeries, Pavia said.
Primary Children's will be re-evaluating daily whether more elective surgeries will need to be delayed.
Elective surgeries that don't require overnight stays are still being held normally but could also be delayed if things get worse, Pavia said
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