ReviewTrends in anaesthesia & critical care2021
Challenges faced in establishing a dedicated 250 bed COVID-19 intensive care unit in a temporary structure.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- End-of-Life Care Experiences, Attitudes and Perceptions of Intensive Care Clinicians in Middle Eastern Countries: A Systematic Integrative Review.Nursing in critical care · 2025Pooled it
- Challenges of providing of special care services in hospitals during emergencies and disasters: a scoping review.BMC emergency medicine · 2024Article
- Alarm Management in Provisional COVID-19 Intensive Care Units: Retrospective Analysis and Recommendations for Future Pandemics.JMIR medical informatics · 2024Article
- Incidence and Predictors of Healthcare-Associated Infections in Patients Admitted to a Temporary Intensive Care Unit during the COVID-19 Pandemic Waves: A Two-Year (2021-2023) Retrospective Cohort Study in Rome, Italy.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Leveraging multi-tier healthcare facility network simulations for capacity planning in a pandemic.Socio-economic planning sciences · 2023Article
- Evaluating Efficacy of a COVID-19 Alternative Care Site Preparedness Assessment Tool for Catastrophic Healthcare Surge Capacity during Pandemic Response.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Strengthening the ICUs' human resource-related responses to Covid-19: A rapid review of the experience during the first year of public health emergency.The International journal of health planning and management · 2023Review
- Outcomes in Temporary ICUs Versus Conventional ICUs: An Observational Cohort of Mechanically Ventilated Patients With COVID-19-Induced Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.Critical care explorations · 2022Article
- Detrimental effect of diabetes and hypertension on the severity and mortality of COVID-19 infection: A multi-center case-control study from India.Diabetes & metabolic syndromeArticle
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Abstract
An Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is an organized system for the provision of care to critically ill patients that provides intensive and specialized medical and nursing care, an enhanced capacity for monitoring, and multiple modalities of physiologic organ support to sustain life during a period of life-threatening organ system insufficiency. While this availability of trained manpower and specialized equipment makes it possible to care for critically ill patients, it also presents singular challenges in the form of man and material management, design concerns, budgetary concerns, and protocolization of treatment. Consequently, the establishment of an ICU requires rigorous design and planning, a process that can take months to years. However, the Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) epidemic has required the significant capacity building to accommodate the increased number of critically ill patients. At the peak of the pandemic, many countries were forced to resort to the building of temporary structures to house critically ill patients, to help tide over the crisis. This narrative review describes the challenges and lessons learned while establishing a 250 bedded ICU in a temporary structure and achieving functionality within a period of a fortnight.
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