Establishing a 130-Bed Field Intensive Care Unit to Prepare for COVID-19 in 7 Days in Bahrain Military Hospital

This article reports the establishment of an isolated, fully functional field intensive care unit (FICU) unit equipped with all necessary critical care facilities as a part of the national pre-emptive preparedness to treat an unexpected surge outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients...

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Autores principales: Louri, Nayef A., Alkhan, Jalal Abdulla, Isa, Hayyan Hamad, Asad, Yaser, Alsharooqi, Abdulla, Alomari, Khalifa Ahmed, Hasan, Nahed Kamal, Al Khalifa, Fahad Bin Khalifa, Ahmed, Ghaida Fareed, Alasmi, Muna Yaqoob, Al-Khalifa, Dana Khalifa, Al Khalifa, Khalid Bin Ali
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
Materias:
Concepts in Disaster Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7590572/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32782041
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2020.297
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Sumario:This article reports the establishment of an isolated, fully functional field intensive care unit (FICU) unit equipped with all necessary critical care facilities as a part of the national pre-emptive preparedness to treat an unexpected surge outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients in Bahrain. One floor of an existing car parking structure was converted into a 130-bed FICU set-up by the in-house project implementation team comprised of multidisciplinary departments. The setting was a military hospital in the Kingdom of Bahrain, and the car park was on the hospital premises. The FICU contained a 112-bed fully equipped ICU and an 18-bed step-down ICU, and was built in 7 d to cater to the intensive care of COVID-19 patients in Bahrain.

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