A study provides insights into the course of the disease in severe cases. Whether intensive treatment or even ventilation is necessary has an impact on mortality.
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Warburg - The corona virus keeps researchers * worldwide on their toes. Initial studies provide information on how the corona peak times were in March and April in Germany. Doctors from the Helios Kliniken and the Brandenburg Medical School have examined the treatment of patients with severe Covid-19 diseases across Germany.
It was found that two out of three corona patients who are treated intensively also had to be artificially ventilated. The study also shows that a third of those who are artificially ventilated die. Every fourth patient in the group of non-ventilated intensive care patients dies . This emerges from a press release from the Helios Klinikum Warburg. For the assessment, the research team evaluated the data from all 1,904 patients who have been admitted with Covid-19 in a total of 86 hospitals in the Helios Group since the start of the pandemic.
Coronavirus: Researchers examine intensive care patients - "no less critical than in other countries"
"An important finding from the Covid-19 register is that the course of the disease in the Covid-19 patients admitted to our hospitals is no less critical than in countries such as Italy, France, Great Britain and Belgium , in which compared with the Population far more Covid-19 cases and Covid-19-related deaths than in Germany, "explained Dr. Julius Dengler, head of the Helios Covid-19 register and chief physician of the clinic for neurosurgery at the Helios Clinic Bad Saarow.
The message also states that around a fifth (21 percent) of the inpatients treated in the hospital had to receive intensive care. Men (27 percent) are significantly more likely than women (16 percent). Of the patients in the intensive care unit, 37 percent received no ventilation.
Coronavirus: mortality increases with ventilation
The death rate is quite high among those who are ventilated . 33 percent of this group did not survive. Of the non-ventilated patients, 23 percent died . “These first results of the ongoing study are already providing us with very important information about the course of the Covid 19 disease. As the study progresses, we will gain further knowledge that will help us understand and treat the virus, ”says Dr. Julius Dengler .
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