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In Germany's intensive care units, the situation in the corona pandemic will remain extremely tense in the coming weeks, regardless of the current lockdown.
Uwe Janssens, President of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (Divi), said at a virtual press conference on Tuesday that there will be a “continued borderline situation in the intensive care units” until January.
The intensive care physicians were concerned about how the situation would develop after Christmas.
The numbers in the intensive care units would continue to rise - "no matter how well the lockdown works," said the spokesman for the Divi intensive care registry, Christian Karagiannidis.
They expected about 6000 patients - and thus about 1000 more than at the moment.
He also prepared the population for a persistently tense situation throughout the winter.
The next three to four months would be "extremely tough" in the hospitals.
He assumes that the clinics will not come down from the current high level until spring.
Medics hoped the numbers would then fall again after this surge due to the current lockdown, Karagiannidis said.
However, it is quite certain that intensive care medicine will be burdened even more.
The background to this is that with increasing numbers of corona infections, the number of corona patients only increases with a time lag.
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Steffen Weber-Carstens from Charité Berlin emphasized that there is currently no situation of so-called triage in Germany.
This also applies to Saxony, where the number of infections is currently particularly high.
From there, patients would be transferred to other federal states, said Weber-Carstens.
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