The number of corona infections in Lower Saxony is increasing - will doctors soon make dramatic decisions?

The corona numbers in Lower Saxony continue to increase.

The situation in the hospitals is worsening.

Do doctors soon face dramatic decisions?

• The

  Corona *

  situation in

  Lower Saxony

  is getting

  worse

  and worse.

• The number of

  intensive care patients is

  increasing.

• Will

  doctors

  soon have to

  decide between

  life

  and

  death

  ?

Lower Saxony - Doctors decide which

treated and which is not.

In the most dramatic case, your choice will decide between

and

.

Many fear this scenario.

The problem: it could

soon become a reality

in

.

The number of corona intensive care patients in Lower Saxony continues to rise

The number of intensive care patients in Lower Saxony's hospitals continues to grow.

pushing

to their limits in many places.

Doctors can only help a certain number of patients.

If the

missing

, doctors have to

turn away

some

sufferers - using the

principle.

This is an approach that has been around since the 19th century.

The term triage is derived from the French word “trier”.

Translated it means: sort or select.

Corona in Lower Saxony: will doctors soon have to use the triage principle?

Doctors use the

principle, for example, in the event of a disaster.

So when there are extremely many injured and they have to decide between life and death in just a few seconds.

The second

wave could result in these catastrophic scenarios in

hospitals.

Countries such as Switzerland and Italy had thus already during the first

-

to fight.

The high number of infections overloaded the

in many places.

Conditions were particularly dire in Italian Lombardy.

May this cup please pass us by. # Triage pic.twitter.com/j4MfBli39Q

- goia (@goia) November 1, 2020

Corona situation in Lower Saxony is getting worse

"I have come into a situation that 

 demands

," said the doctor Francesca Mangiatordi, who worked in Cremona at the time.

The

is

currently

becoming more and more dramatic.

The situation is getting worse in many places - also in

.

A tragic case in Switzerland sparked the

debate.

A senior intensive care doctor had to turn away an 80-year-old.

The man suffered from a

.

"Normally we would have taken this person in so that they had at least a minimal chance of survival," the NZZ doctor described on Sunday.

"In the current situation, however, I prefer to keep the last beds free for cases where there is more

."

+

The number of new corona infections continues to rise in Lower Saxony, which could soon affect the situation in hospitals.

Will the doctors there soon have to make decisions about the life and death of patients?

© Luca Bruno / dpa

There are still

enough

for

in

.

But how long?

Experts have calculated that the capacity limits in hospitals nationwide could be exceeded in the next four to eight weeks.

Corona in Lower Saxony: Ethicists call for debate in the Bundestag

In view of the increasing number of

in

, ethicists in Germany are now calling for a parliamentary debate on the distribution of scarce ventilation places.

"It would be good if the Bundestag held an orientation debate on the subject of

," said former chairman of the German Ethics Council, Peter Dabrock, to Spiegel.

"We need a civil society discussion on the question of how scarce, vital resources should be dealt with."

The public discussion of the topic shows one thing above all: The

is becoming more and more serious - also in

.

(Jan Wendt)

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