The German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive and Emergency Medicine, DIVI for short, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) and the German Hospital Federation (DKG) have cooperated closely in order to quickly activate a website on which intensive care physicians can query and register free ventilation places for corona virus patients in all hospitals throughout Germany. This so-called DIVI Intensive Care Register provides data on daily updated representations of the capacities of free ventilation places in intensive care units, which are divided into three categories. Hospitals can query the free capacities in a few minutes but also need just as long to offer free ventilation places. 240 hospitals are already registered, more will follow soon. The DIVI Intensive Care Register, which offers and also accepts free capacities, distinguishes between three categories: Into a small care need (low-care), a care need for severely ill patients (high-care) and one for patients to be ventilated severely ill with the category „ECMO“. The entire register was programmed within 14 days. A traffic light system shows free ventilation capacities in a simple form. In many countries such as China, Italy and Spain, current situations in the rapidly developing Covid-19 spread showed and still show that especially the non-existent presentation of the possibilities of machine ventilation for critically ill physicians posed great problems. A database for all intensive care physicians in Germany should then solve this problem in the corona pandemic. There is also a label indicating how much experience the corresponding clinic has in dealing with respiratory patients because not all clinics have the same amount of experience. Doctors with less experience can thus quickly identify which clinic they should contact for acute questions, as the telephone numbers and contact persons of teams of experts are also listed.
