Every second intensive care patient who is currently listed in the DIVI intensive care register as a corona intensive care patient is not in the intensive care unit (ITS) because of corona. That comes from one Presentation of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI) which has been available since Wednesday and will be updated weekly from now on. According to this, as of Monday, of 761 ICU cases officially recorded as corona patients, 394 were being treated with “intensive care medicine relevant Covid 19 manifestations” – this corresponds to 51 percent.
According to DIVI, the other half had no indication that their corona infections were relevant for admission to the intensive care unit. The patients with manifestations, the DIVI explained yesterday, “are mainly very old patients”.
According to the DIVI, “patients with manifestations” are counted in the evaluation as “cases in which there is primary lung and/or system involvement of a Covid-19 disease or whose clinical condition has worsened as a result of Covid-19”. This also included patients “whose main diagnosis and/or underlying diseases are influenced by the Covid 19 disease or vice versa”.
The newly introduced statistics also differentiate between types of treatment in the intensive care units. Of the 364 cases counted as corona patients in which no respiratory support is required, almost 30 percent require treatment because of Covid. In the case of invasive ventilation (236 patients treated), the rate is currently 68 percent. The rate for ECMO treatment is 80 percent – however, there are currently only ten patients nationwide who are counted as requiring ECMO treatment in the corona context.
The DIVI graphic, which has been expanded to include manifestations, is to be published every Monday from now on. Since the beginning of January this year, the association announced yesterday, “the number of Covid 19 patients treated in intensive care units has almost halved from 1,367 to 776 today”.
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