Abstracts by keywords: intensive care units
The corona pandemic poses major challenges for the healthcare system. There was great concern about overload, particularly with regard to intensive care capacities. The discussion about the right prevention, therapy and care concepts remains intense [1]. In addition to symptomatic measures, the treatment concept for Covid-19 includes oxygen administration, non-invasive and invasive ventilation, thromboembolism prophylaxis and the administration of dexamethasone in severe cases [2]. The evaluation of routine data during the course of the pandemic can meaningfully supplement surveillance via legal procedures and the development of registers in a timely manner and without additional collection effort. The Quality Indicators for Church Hospitals Association (QKK e. V.) has therefore quickly added the topic of Covid-19 to its cross-agency quality benchmarking. The Covid-19 module includes 27 key figures in the QKK indicator set for 2021, including intensive care, complications, ventilation and mortality (see https://www.qkk-online.de/). The QKK e. V. can use the routine data from its member institutions to make a comparison between the first and second waves of the corona pandemic in order to support the further development of treatment concepts for patients with Covid-19.