Corona soon only secondary diagnosis?

Clinic doctor disagrees - and refers to deadly danger

Created: 2022-02-04 07:52

By: Catherine Haase

A nurse distributes medication in the Covid-19 intensive care unit.

© Peter Kneffel/dpa

The corona situation in the Free State is still tense due to high incidence figures.

Infection is increasingly not the main diagnosis in clinics.

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– The corona situation in Bavaria remains tense.

According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI)*, the seven-day incidence in Bavaria is 1695.6 on Friday.

Leaders are the districts of Fürstenfeldbruck with 3019.1 and Dachau with 2741.8.

The city of Würzburg follows in third place with 2515.1.

The numbers are still extremely high due to the rapidly spreading omicron variant of the corona virus, and the state capital Munich* also made a huge leap compared to the previous day with an incidence of 2119.3.

Corona situation in Bavaria tense: new infection picture in the hospitals

In hospitals, a Corona* infection is increasingly becoming a “secondary diagnosis”.

In the omicron wave in Bavaria's hospitals, for example, a high proportion of corona patients are not being treated for Covid, but for other diseases.

However, this only applies to patients in the normal wards.

For the majority of corona intensive care patients, Covid is also the main diagnosis, as five university clinics and the RoMed clinics in Rosenheim report on request.

However, the ratios vary greatly from region to region.

While in some hospitals, such as at the LMU-Klinikum in Munich, over 65 percent of those infected are also treated for Covid, there are significantly fewer in the Rechts der Isar Clinic.

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Corona only as a secondary diagnosis?

Doctor at the University Hospital Erlangen explains the situation

However, a clear separation of diagnoses is difficult anyway and often does not make sense, according to the statement of several clinics on request.

Especially in the case of patients who already suffer from several diseases, it is often no longer possible to separate the reason for hospitalization.

The situation is different for intensive care patients.

If they are infected with the corona virus, this is also the reason for hospitalization in the majority of cases.

Thomas Harrer, Head of Infectious Diseases at Medical Clinic 3 in Erlangen, says a simultaneous viral infection also increases the risk of other infections.

“So you have to assume that the course of other diseases is more difficult due to a corona infection.” The vast majority of adults still come to the clinic because of corona.

"It must be taken into account that Sars-CoV-2 not only causes pneumonia, but also causes gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea, abdominal pain and vascular problems such as thrombosis, heart attacks and strokes." kah