ArticleJournal of the Intensive Care Society2022
Critical care transfers and COVID-19: Managing capacity challenges through critical care networks.
Article in Journal of the Intensive Care Society, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Inter-hospital ICU-to-ICU transfer of critically ill COVID-19 patients is not associated with increased mortality: a systematic review with exploratory meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2026Pooled it
- Uncertainty and decision-making in critical care: lessons from managing COVID-19 ARDS in preparation for the next pandemic.BMJ open respiratory research · 2025Pooled it
- Challenges of providing of special care services in hospitals during emergencies and disasters: a scoping review.BMC emergency medicine · 2024Article
- Critical care and pandemic preparedness and response.British journal of anaesthesia · 2023Review
- Building a Covid-19 secure intensive care unit: A human-centred design approach.Journal of the Intensive Care Society · 2023Article
- Comparison of patient characteristics and long-term mortality between transferred and non-transferred COVID-19 patients in Dutch intensive care units: A national cohort study.Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica · 2022Article
- COVID-19 trajectories among 57 million adults in England: a cohort study using electronic health records.The Lancet. Digital health · 2022Article
- Algorithmic hospital catchment area estimation using label propagation.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Patient outcomes following transfer between intensive care units during the COVID-19 pandemic.Anaesthesia · 2022Article
- Lessons learned from the first 50 COVID-19 critical care transfer missions conducted by a civilian UK Helicopter Emergency Medical Service team.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
The intensive care units in North West London are part of one of the oldest critical care networks in the UK, forming a mature and established strategic alliance to share resources, experience and knowledge for the benefit of its patients. North West London saw an early surge in COVID-19 admissions, which urgently threatened the capacity of some of its intensive care units even before the UK government announced lockdown. The pre-existing relationships and culture within the network allowed its members to unite and work rapidly to develop agile and innovative solutions, protecting any individual unit from becoming overwhelmed, and ultimately protecting its patients. Within a short 50-day period 223 patients were transferred within the network to distribute pressures. This unprecedented number of critical care transfers, combined with the creation of extra capacity and new pathways, allowed the region to continue to offer timely and unrationed access to critical care for all patients who would benefit from admission. This extraordinary response is a testament to the power and benefits of a regionally networked approach to critical care, and the lessons learned may benefit other healthcare providers, managers and policy makers, especially in regions currently facing new outbreaks of COVID-19.
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