Anaesthesia and Critical Care Department at a Major Academic Centre’s Adaptation to Face the COVID-19 Pandemic

The new novel coronavirus is having a major impact on healthcare systems internationally. Hospitals are struggling to manage the sudden influx of critical patients. Anaesthesiologists and critical care physicians are front liners in the fight against COVID-19 and carry the highest risk of getting in...

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Autores principales: Farsi, Sara, Noaman, Nada, Bukhary, Auhood, Bahaziq, Wadeeah, Sabbahi, Alaa, Abushoshah, Ibrahim, Boker, Abdulaziz
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8289458/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34290525
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IJGM.S318336
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author Farsi, Sara
Noaman, Nada
Bukhary, Auhood
Bahaziq, Wadeeah
Sabbahi, Alaa
Abushoshah, Ibrahim
Boker, Abdulaziz
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description The new novel coronavirus is having a major impact on healthcare systems internationally. Hospitals are struggling to manage the sudden influx of critical patients. Anaesthesiologists and critical care physicians are front liners in the fight against COVID-19 and carry the highest risk of getting infected. Due to the rapid response of the Saudi government to the WHO’s early warning, we were fortunate at our hospital to see a slower rise in COVID-19 cases allowing us some time to prepare. We had to make room for the expected rise in highly infectious and critical patients, while at the same time protecting non-COVID-19 patients, staff and trainees. Additionally, the team continued to provide essential and specialized care to all patients in the hospital and maintain its academic and non-clinical services within the university. This review presents the different protocols, challenges and lessons learned during the development of a COVID-19 anaesthesia and critical care department plan in a major teaching hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Our ultimate aim is to share our experience with other similar institutions.
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spelling pubmed-82894582021-07-20 Anaesthesia and Critical Care Department at a Major Academic Centre’s Adaptation to Face the COVID-19 Pandemic Farsi, Sara Noaman, Nada Bukhary, Auhood Bahaziq, Wadeeah Sabbahi, Alaa Abushoshah, Ibrahim Boker, Abdulaziz Int J Gen Med Original Research The new novel coronavirus is having a major impact on healthcare systems internationally. Hospitals are struggling to manage the sudden influx of critical patients. Anaesthesiologists and critical care physicians are front liners in the fight against COVID-19 and carry the highest risk of getting infected. Due to the rapid response of the Saudi government to the WHO’s early warning, we were fortunate at our hospital to see a slower rise in COVID-19 cases allowing us some time to prepare. We had to make room for the expected rise in highly infectious and critical patients, while at the same time protecting non-COVID-19 patients, staff and trainees. Additionally, the team continued to provide essential and specialized care to all patients in the hospital and maintain its academic and non-clinical services within the university. This review presents the different protocols, challenges and lessons learned during the development of a COVID-19 anaesthesia and critical care department plan in a major teaching hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Our ultimate aim is to share our experience with other similar institutions. Dove 2021-07-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8289458/ /pubmed/34290525 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IJGM.S318336 Text en © 2021 Farsi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) ). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php).
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Farsi, Sara
Noaman, Nada
Bukhary, Auhood
Bahaziq, Wadeeah
Sabbahi, Alaa
Abushoshah, Ibrahim
Boker, Abdulaziz
Anaesthesia and Critical Care Department at a Major Academic Centre’s Adaptation to Face the COVID-19 Pandemic
title Anaesthesia and Critical Care Department at a Major Academic Centre’s Adaptation to Face the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_full Anaesthesia and Critical Care Department at a Major Academic Centre’s Adaptation to Face the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_fullStr Anaesthesia and Critical Care Department at a Major Academic Centre’s Adaptation to Face the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_full_unstemmed Anaesthesia and Critical Care Department at a Major Academic Centre’s Adaptation to Face the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_short Anaesthesia and Critical Care Department at a Major Academic Centre’s Adaptation to Face the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_sort anaesthesia and critical care department at a major academic centre’s adaptation to face the covid-19 pandemic
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8289458/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34290525
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IJGM.S318336
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