COVID-19 patients in the Netherlands now spend only 8 days in ICU compared to 22 days in March/April, says chairman of Dutch ICU association

There are currently many more corona patients in intensive care than in March and April, at the start of the corona pandemic in the Netherlands. This confirms Diederik Gommers, chairman of the Dutch Association for Intensive Care (NVIC), following reports in the AD .

This is because the length of stay of corona patients in the ICU has become much shorter. In March and April, a patient spent an average of 22 days in the ICU, in July and August this had dropped to less than eight, according to figures from the National Intensive Care Evaluation Foundation (NICE).

It should be noted that the figures for July and August may be slightly higher, because a number of those patients were still in the ICU when the report was written.

"We are still investigating why people can leave the IC faster," says Gommers. "But if you assume that it concerns a comparable group of patients, then I think an important part can be attributed to the improved treatment."

The corona patients not only leave the IC faster, the chance of survival has also improved, says Gommers. He says there are no indications that the virus has become milder.

"We still need to do more research into the causes, but it is certainly a very promising development," he says. "We don't know if there will be a second corona wave and how big it will be, but if it is comparable to the first, then we need to expand the ICs much less."

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