Challenges faced in establishing a dedicated 250 bed COVID-19 intensive care unit in a temporary structure.

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

SUBMITTER: Singh S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7647395 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature