Hospital preparedness for mass critical care during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

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  • Mass critical care caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 pandemic poses an extreme challenge to hospitals. The primary goal of hospital disaster preparedness and response is to maintain conventional or contingency care for as long as possible. Crisis care must be delayed as long as possible by appropriate measures. Increasing the intensive care unit (ICU) capacities is essential. In order to adjust surge capacity, the reduction of planned, elective patient care is an adequate response. However, this involves numerousMass critical care caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 pandemic poses an extreme challenge to hospitals. The primary goal of hospital disaster preparedness and response is to maintain conventional or contingency care for as long as possible. Crisis care must be delayed as long as possible by appropriate measures. Increasing the intensive care unit (ICU) capacities is essential. In order to adjust surge capacity, the reduction of planned, elective patient care is an adequate response. However, this involves numerous problems that must be solved with a sense of proportion. This paper summarises preparedness and response measures recommended to acute care hospitals.show moreshow less

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Author: Thomas WurmbORCiD, Katja Scholtes, Felix Kolibay, Nora Schorscher, Georg Ertl, Ralf-Ingo Ernestus, Ulrich Vogel, Axel Franke, Barbara Kowalzik
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-230201
Document Type:Journal article
Faculties:Medizinische Fakultät / Institut für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie
Medizinische Fakultät / Klinik und Poliklinik für Anästhesiologie (ab 2004)
Language:English
Parent Title (English):Critical Care
Year of Completion:2020
Volume:24
Article Number:386
Source:Critical Care (2020) 24:386 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-020-03104-0
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-020-03104-0
Dewey Decimal Classification:6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
Tag:Disaster response; Hospital emergency plan; Mass critical care; SARS-CoV-2
Release Date:2021/04/19
Collections:Open-Access-Publikationsfonds / Förderzeitraum 2020
Licence (German):License LogoCC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung 4.0 International