Articles: pandemics.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has put triage on the political agenda. Disabled people feared being disadvantaged in the allocation of scarce intensive care resources. The German Federal Constitutional Court has agreed with them and obliged the legislature to regulate the triage. However, the new paragraph 5c of the Infection Protection Act (IfSG) raises more questions than it answers.
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Jan 2023
Multicenter StudyTrends in Disease Severity Among Critically Ill Children With Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2: A Retrospective Multicenter Cohort Study in the United States.
To describe trends in critical illness from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in children over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. We hypothesized that PICU admission rates were higher in the Omicron period compared with the original outbreak but that fewer patients needed endotracheal intubation. ⋯ COVID-19-related PICU admissions were seven times higher in the Omicron wave compared with the original outbreak. We could not exclude the possibility of up to 70% reduction in use of intubation in the Omicron versus original epoch, which may represent differences in PICU/hospital admission policy in the later period, or pattern of disease, or possibly the impact of vaccination.