Shock message from Munich clinics: only emergency operations possible due to Corona - "spiral of escalation"

In view of the increasing number of serious corona diseases, Munich intensive care physicians are warning of a collapse of the health system.

First operations are canceled.

Munich

- In Munich's clinics, the crisis managers have their backs to the wall: They have to put off some surgery patients until April in order to create more corona intensive care beds.

According to an explosive forecast by the University of Freiburg on behalf of the Robert Koch Institute *, the number of Corona * intensive care patients in Bavaria could rise to 1750 by December 4th.

That would be more than twice as many as on November 14th.

On this day, the comparative data for the three-week forecast with the abbreviation SPoCK was collected.

Corona in Munich: intensive care physicians appeal to unvaccinated people

There are currently around 120 corona patients in intensive care units in Munich.

The situation report by the Munich hospital coordinators gives an idea of ​​how serious the situation is.

Dominik Hinzmann.

Neither tend towards alarmism, which makes their appeal all the more threatening: “The collapse of our health system is not a theoretical, but a real danger.

The power of the many high-performance Munich clinics is not infinite either.

We all - and especially the unvaccinated - must finally understand that. "

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The medical crisis managers already know that a further corona escalation can no longer be prevented.

All you need to do is take a look at the daily number of infections: A certain percentage of those who are infected today will end up in intensive care units in around two to three weeks.

“Even if there were a fairy godmother to turn off the pandemic immediately, the situation would only get worse.

Now it's just a matter of stopping the spiral of escalation. "

Intensive care units in Munich busy: operations are postponed

If this does not succeed, not only will many more corona patients die unnecessarily, but also other seriously ill people. In Saxony, doctors are already preparing for triage. That means: you then have to decide which patients can be treated and which are doomed to die. This scenario could also occur in Munich.

Planned operations are currently being postponed to create vacant intensive care beds.

In the large Munich clinics, there is practically an operating stop, only emergencies end up immediately under the knife.

"We have to tell many patients that we will only be able to operate on them in April," reports Professor Christian Stief from the Großhadern University Hospital.

This applies, for example, to patients with benign prostate enlargement, with terminal osteoarthritis of the joints or with certain heart valve diseases.

Munich: Care of corona patients in intensive care units is expensive

OP appointments are also currently being canceled in the University Hospital on the right of the Isar.

"In order to create more capacity in the intensive care units, it is necessary to postpone major interventions and operations," confirms clinic director Dr.

Martin Siess of

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When the operating theaters are being closed, it is primarily a question of personnel reallocations.

Anesthetists, OR nurses and other specialists can then be assigned to the intensive care units.

There are now between 30 and 40 percent of corona patients there - a far too high proportion.

“Your treatment is extremely time-consuming,” explain Bogner-Flatz and Hinzmann.

From the point of view of the experts, it seems all the more important to curb the skyrocketing number of hospital admissions.

A new antibody drug could help.

It is intended to prevent some corona patients from even having to go to hospital.

"We grab every straw to defuse the situation." (

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