[COVID-19: retrospective analysis of cardiac surgery capacity in German heart centers].

ABSTRACT:

Background

For documentation of COVID-19 pandemic-related changes in cardiac surgery in Germany, the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery carried out a structured survey.

Methods

From 79 German institutions for cardiac surgery, 53 took part in the survey. The cut-off date before the pandemic was taken as 1 January 2020 and 30 April 2021 as the cut-off date for data recruitment. At this point of time, the third wave of the pandemic in Germany had already ebbed away and the return to routine surgery seemed to be foreseeable.

Results

On 1 January 2020, in 53 German cardiac surgery departments 800 intensive care beds were allocated. In April 2021, this capacity was reduced by 25.6% to 595 beds. Accordingly, the number of operating rooms for cardiac surge

SUBMITTER: Boning A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9362024 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature