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The German Hospital Society expects a new record in intensive care patients in view of the significantly higher number of coronaviruses. Even intensive care physicians view the development with concern.
The director of the German Hospital Society, Gerald Gaß, expects a new record in intensive care patients in Germany during the corona pandemic. “In two or three weeks we will exceed the maximum number of intensive care patients from April, and we can no longer avoid that. Anyone who is hospitalized with us in three weeks is already infected today,” he told “Bild”. Newspaper.
It also announced that it would also deploy nursing staff from non-intensive care areas to intensive care units. “That, of course, is not ideal, but it can be justified in such an exceptional situation,” Gass said.
“There is not much room for maneuver”
The president of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI), Uwe Janssens, said at the weekend in “Bild am Sonntag”: “Very clearly: in some federal states there is not much space left. Berlin only has the 14 percent free intensive care beds, Bremen 17 percent “. In the spring, the situation was much less dramatic than what awaits us now.
The federally licensed nurse, Andreas Westerfellhaus, called for operations that could be planned to be postponed. “Many intensive care nurses are already working to the limit, and rightly they warn of a deterioration,” he told the newspaper “Bild”. Only “a set of measures will prevent a disaster, for example, postponing operations that can be planned according to the situation at the site.”
Criticism of Spahn
Meanwhile, the vice chairman of the SPD parliamentary group, Bärbel Bas, blamed Health Minister Jens Spahn for failing to adequately protect health professionals and risk groups. “The announced test strategy is unfortunately too late,” he told the “Welt.” With the increasing number of infections, healthcare workers are likely to be increasingly absent.
