Table 2.
Participating intensive care units (ICUs)
| Country | Number of ICUs / Number of hospitals | Number of ICUs per specialty* |
Median number of beds per hospital | Median number of beds per ICU | Median number of beds with a ventilator per ICU (n) | Number of included patients | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mixed | Internal medicine | Surgery | Cardiac surgery | Other† | ||||||
| Austria |
7 / 1 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2,137 |
8 |
8 |
132 |
| Belgium |
5 / 4 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
854 |
18 |
18 |
1,318 |
| France |
4 / 4 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
504 |
11 |
11 |
323 |
| Germany |
5 / 1 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
3,200 |
11 |
11 |
689 |
| Hungary |
15 / 10 |
7 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
1,163 |
10 |
10 |
2,311 |
| Italy |
7 / 4 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
474 |
8 |
8 |
1,031 |
| Spain |
4 / 4 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
600 |
19 |
16 |
702 |
| All | 47 / 28 | 22 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 854 | 11 | 11 | 6,506 |
* An ICU was defined as belonging to a specialty if ≥ 80% of patients in this ICU belonged to this specialty.
† Other: Neurosurgery, Paediatrics, Transplant surgery, Burn, Neurology.