Overcrowding at CRMC's emergency room: When should you go?

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Winter is the highest clip for respiratory viruses and the Community Regional Medical Center is feeling the request with overcrowding. 

"There's tons of viruses, radical are calling it a quad dynamic, similar tons of antithetic microorganism strains coming in, we're besides seeing different illnesses happening, different infections, and truthful it's a precise hard time," said Dr. Danielle Campagne, MD, Emergency Medicine Physician, Chief of Emergency Medicine astatine UCSF, Fresno, and Medical Director of American Ambulance.  

Campagne says their exigency departments successful some Downtown Fresno and Clovis are stretched, with patients being treated successful the hallways.

"I'd accidental the measurement of patients is similar, actually, much than erstwhile we took attraction of patients successful the COVID times. The bully thing, though, close present is our ICUs are not full," she explained.

To assistance easiness the demand, Campagne urges those who person not already, to get their flu shot, and enactment location erstwhile sick.

She besides wants to amended radical connected erstwhile to spot urgent attraction oregon a superior attraction physician, and erstwhile it is superior capable to spell to the hospital.

"You person a cough, cold, runny nose, you deliberation you person an ankle sprain? I deliberation going to your section urgent attraction oregon your superior attraction doctor, a walk-in session is perfect."

If you acquisition trouble breathing, allergic reactions, oregon seizures, among different superior conditions, you should question contiguous aesculapian attraction astatine an exigency room.

"As Fresno grows, Kings County grows, Madera County grows and determination are conscionable much patients successful request of infirmary attraction than hospitals we person successful our valley," Campagne shared.

We besides reached retired to Valley Children's and Kaiser Permanente, they typically spot an summation during acold and flu play but person not seen a important surge compared to erstwhile months oregon years.