Interactive guidance on COVID-19 therapy published

13.06.2022 12:39

The leading specialist societies of the S3 guideline for inpatient therapy of COVID-19 patients - German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI), German Society for Pulmonology and Respiratory Medicine (DGP), German Society for Internal Intensive Care Medicine (DGIIN) and German Society for Infectious Diseases (DGI) - have developed an online decision-making aid together with the intensive care medicine, infectious diseases and emergency medicine specialist group at the RKI (COVRIIN).

The tool takes into account the temporal phase of the COVID disease, the patient's current respiratory support, risk factors and their vaccination status. “Our common goal was to provide our colleagues in direct patient care with an interactive and simple decision-making aid,” says Professor Christian Karagiannidis, medical science. Head of the DIVI intensive care registry, president of the DGIIN and head of the ECMO center at the Cologne-Merheim lung clinic. “This resulted in a user-friendly synthesis of the S3 guidelines and the reports of the COVRIIN specialist group.

The working group will update the tool regularly in the coming weeks and months in order to keep the therapy recommendations issued up to date. “There will be ongoing evaluation and further development of the recommendations,” said Karagiannidis.