Fig. 4
Reallocation of personnel to intensive care units during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. (a) Reallocation of physicians according to their professional qualification. Hospitals were asked whether physicians of anesthesiology departments, physicians of other departments where intensive care medicine is part of the specialist training and physicians of other departments in which intensive care medicine is not part of the specialist training were deployed to ICUs in their hospital. Answers are given in percentage terms for each group. n = 39, N.s./n.a. Not specified/not answered. (b) Reallocation of nursing staff according to their professional qualification and of other employees. Analogously, the hospitals were asked whether anesthesia nurses and anesthesia technicians (corresponding in Germany to Anästhesie-Fachpflegekräfte bzw. Anästhesie-Technische Assistenten (ATAs)), surgical nurses and surgical technicians (in Germany OP-Fachpflegekräfte bzw. Operationstechnische Assistenten (OTAs)) as well as nursing personnel from normal wards or intervention units (e.g., cardiac catheterization lab) were deployed to ICUs in their hospital. Answers are given in percentage terms for each group. n = 39, N.s./n.a. Not specified/not answered