According to the State Medical Association, Saxony has to prepare for triage.
There are only a few beds available in the intensive care units in the Free State, said the President of the State Medical Association, Erik Bodendieck, the broadcaster NDR Info.
If nothing changes, a selection must be made of who will be treated and who will not.
Dresden - “We have to triage, and I'll be discussing that again with my colleagues in the clinics this week.” Triage means that doctors have to decide who to help first due to scarce resources.
Preventive triage, i.e. keeping beds free, is not legally possible.
"For unvaccinated patients in a Covid situation this is usually not the case that they can survive a Covid situation," said Bodendieck.
He hopes that things will turn out differently than currently forecast.
Saxony is in any case dependent on the help of other federal states.
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In another interview with Deutschlandfunk, Bodendieck said that the treatment of all patients is currently still affordable.
With the forecasts, however, he assumes that Saxony will be so exposed to stress in the next few days that two people will have to "fight" for a bed.
The consideration then is who has the better chance of a successful treatment.
Unvaccinated people would have “a very poor chance of survival” in the case of so-called extracorporeal ventilation, which is used in acute lung failure.
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