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There is no room in the intensive care unit: such news from Bergamo or New York caused shock waves in the spring. Many doctors and nursing teams in Germany could now face this traumatic decision.
Doctors sometimes have to decide who is treating whom in a matter of minutes for classification.
Who will get the bed in the intensive care unit? Can a doctor disconnect a patient from one ventilator to connect another? This so-called triage is often a life or death decision that is actually difficult for both patients and healthcare professionals to bear and difficult for lay people to understand. It is currently unclear where in Germany triage has already taken place due to Corona. But given the current infection rate, experts fear this will increasingly be the case nationwide in the coming weeks. What does that mean in concrete terms? We have put together the most important questions and answers about the triage decision from a medical and legal point of view.
