The corona virus has long reached the region. Older people are particularly at risk, but there is now a man in his late 40s in the Würzburg University Hospital.
Four corona patients are currently being treated at the Würzburg University Hospital, including a man in his late 40s. He is in the intensive care unit and has to be ventilated. He had no recognizable previous illnesses, the medical clinic director Georg Ertl reported on Tuesday to the press.
“There is no medical explanation for this. But within the framework of the statistical distribution, we also have to count on a few young, severely affected patients,” Ertl said when asked. According to the university clinic, three additional corona patients were treated in an isolated normal ward on Tuesday. The number of patients is constantly changing due to access and discharge.
University hospital postpones all planned operations
Due to the corona pandemic, the university hospital has put off all scheduled recordings, operations and interventions indefinitely. Only medically mandatory measures should still be carried out. This includes emergencies such as heart attacks, strokes or oncological treatments and operations that cannot be postponed. According to the university clinic, the stop applies in particular to “predictable interventions that can result in intensive medical care.”
The university clinic also appeals to Bavaria’s Minister of Science Bernd Sibler. He had asked that all intensive care and ventilation capacities be focused on the treatment of patients with severe respiratory diseases by Covid-19.
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In the event of an overload of the infection station, the university hospital for testing and treating Covid-19 patients has upgraded additional areas. A graded plan has been developed to free up rooms for intensive care, including artificial ventilation. If necessary, 75 ventilation stations for corona patients can be set up, says Ertl. One wants to bring in the necessary personnel from other “less critical areas” and from scientific outpatient clinics and laboratories.
Medical students should support the corona fight
“Projections are not reliable,” says Ertl. But scientific projects will be cut back so that employees in other departments can help out. In addition, Bavaria’s Minister of Science Bernd Sibler, together with the medical directors of the six university hospitals in Würzburg, Augsburg, Erlangen, Munich (LMU and TUM) and Regensburg, called on medical students to volunteer in the fight against the corona pandemic.
The institutes for virology and microbiology at the University of Würzburg play a decisive role in the tests. “We were able to increase the test capacity many times over and enable the relocation outside of the areas for patient care, especially emergency rooms,” said the virologist Benedikt Weißbrich and microbiologist Christoph Schoen. As the university clinic announced on request, the capacity was increased almost tenfold within a short time from 50 daily tests to 400 to 500 tests.
600 calls to the citizen phone
Medical students have recently started working on the citizens’ phone set up by the city and district of Würzburg. 14 telephones will soon be switched on to answer questions from the population about the corona virus. It started with four employees. “There are currently around 600 phone calls a day,” said district spokeswoman Eva Schorno when asked by the editorial team. For the medical director of the university hospital, this is a great help, as Ertl made clear. Concerned citizens used to come directly to the clinics. However, this should be avoided urgently in order not to further promote the contagion. Tests are only carried out by doctor’s order.
The medical director of the university hospital emphasizes: “As a university hospital, we have a particular responsibility and coordinate closely with the hospitals in the region, which are all very burdened by the situation. We are well positioned for the region, I think. “
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