Palliative Medizin in der COVID-19-Pandemie

Palliative care in a pandemic becomes part of emergency care. In the current infection process with COVID-19, the medical team itself is becoming a risk group. Depending on age and frailty, patients with advanced kidney disease have a high risk of disease and mortality. Medical measures must be planned from an ethical point of view. Risk stratification helps to establish palliative care in good time. Relatives who were no longer able to adequately accompany the dying under pandemic conditions are of particular concern.