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
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Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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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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author 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
author_facet 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
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description 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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spelling pubmed-75905722020-10-27 Establishing a 130-Bed Field Intensive Care Unit to Prepare for COVID-19 in 7 Days in Bahrain Military Hospital 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 Disaster Med Public Health Prep Concepts in Disaster Medicine 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. Cambridge University Press 2020-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7590572/ /pubmed/32782041 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2020.297 Text en © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Concepts in Disaster Medicine
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
Establishing a 130-Bed Field Intensive Care Unit to Prepare for COVID-19 in 7 Days in Bahrain Military Hospital
title Establishing a 130-Bed Field Intensive Care Unit to Prepare for COVID-19 in 7 Days in Bahrain Military Hospital
title_full Establishing a 130-Bed Field Intensive Care Unit to Prepare for COVID-19 in 7 Days in Bahrain Military Hospital
title_fullStr Establishing a 130-Bed Field Intensive Care Unit to Prepare for COVID-19 in 7 Days in Bahrain Military Hospital
title_full_unstemmed Establishing a 130-Bed Field Intensive Care Unit to Prepare for COVID-19 in 7 Days in Bahrain Military Hospital
title_short Establishing a 130-Bed Field Intensive Care Unit to Prepare for COVID-19 in 7 Days in Bahrain Military Hospital
title_sort establishing a 130-bed field intensive care unit to prepare for covid-19 in 7 days in bahrain military hospital
topic Concepts in Disaster Medicine
url 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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