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Mass food challenges in a vacant COVID‐19 stepdown facility: Exceptional opportunity provides a model for the future
BACKGROUND: Internationally, the COVID‐19 pandemic severely curtailed access to hospital facilities for those awaiting elective/semi‐elective procedures. For allergic children in Ireland, already waiting up to 4 years for an elective oral food challenge (OFC), the restrictions signified indefinite d...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8420236/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34152649 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pai.13580 |
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author | Byrne, Aideen M. Trujillo, Juan Fitzsimons, John Mohammed, Tariq Ghent, Robert O’Carroll, Cathryn Coghlan, David Hourihane, Jonathan O’B Alsaleemi, Ali Cassidy, Aoife Corbet, Eva Creighton, Rita d’Art, Yvonne Farren, Linda Flanagan, Rachel Flynn, Niamh Franklin, Ruth Gray, Claire Harding, Paul Hendrick, Ciara Heraghty, Fionnuala Hurley, Sadhbh Kavanagh, Valerie Lad, Dhanis Leddy, Karen Lewis, Sarah McGlynn, Triona O’Connor, Danielle O’Neill, Phil O’Shea, Orla O’Toole, Ann Quinn, Rachel Reid, Aisling Russell, Alison Ruth, Emma Rynne, Anne Sanneerappa, P Bhusan Sheehan, Mairead Thompson, Claire Tobin, Ciara Trayer, James Wallace, Alison Walsh, Nicola Wilson, Fiona |
author_facet | Byrne, Aideen M. Trujillo, Juan Fitzsimons, John Mohammed, Tariq Ghent, Robert O’Carroll, Cathryn Coghlan, David Hourihane, Jonathan O’B Alsaleemi, Ali Cassidy, Aoife Corbet, Eva Creighton, Rita d’Art, Yvonne Farren, Linda Flanagan, Rachel Flynn, Niamh Franklin, Ruth Gray, Claire Harding, Paul Hendrick, Ciara Heraghty, Fionnuala Hurley, Sadhbh Kavanagh, Valerie Lad, Dhanis Leddy, Karen Lewis, Sarah McGlynn, Triona O’Connor, Danielle O’Neill, Phil O’Shea, Orla O’Toole, Ann Quinn, Rachel Reid, Aisling Russell, Alison Ruth, Emma Rynne, Anne Sanneerappa, P Bhusan Sheehan, Mairead Thompson, Claire Tobin, Ciara Trayer, James Wallace, Alison Walsh, Nicola Wilson, Fiona |
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description | BACKGROUND: Internationally, the COVID‐19 pandemic severely curtailed access to hospital facilities for those awaiting elective/semi‐elective procedures. For allergic children in Ireland, already waiting up to 4 years for an elective oral food challenge (OFC), the restrictions signified indefinite delay. At the time of the initiative, there were approx 900 children on the Children's Health Ireland (CHI) waiting list. In July 2020, a project was facilitated by short‐term (6 weeks) access to an empty COVID stepdown facility built, in a hotel conference centre, commandeered by the Health Service Executive (HSE), Ireland. The aim of this study was to achieve the rapid roll‐out of an offsite OFC service, delivering high throughput of long waiting patients, while aligning with existing hospital policies and quality standards, international allergy guidelines and national social distancing standards. METHODS: The working group engaged key stakeholders to rapidly develop an offsite OFC facility. Consultant paediatric allergists, consultant paediatricians, trainees and allergy clinical nurse specialists were seconded from other duties. The facility was already equipped with hospital beds, bedside monitors (BP, pulse and oxygen saturation) and bedside oxygen. All medication and supplies had to be brought from the base hospital. Daily onsite consultant anaesthetic cover was resourced and a resuscitation room equipped. Standardized food challenge protocols were created. Access to the onsite hotel chef facilitated food preparation. A risk register was established. RESULTS: After 6 weeks of planning, the remote centre became operational on 7/9/2020, with the capacity of 27 OFC/day. 474 challenges were commenced: 465 (98%) were completed and 9 (2%) were inconclusive. 135 (29%) OFCs were positive, with 25 (5%) causing anaphylaxis. No child required advanced airway intervention. 8 children were transferred to the base hospital. The CHI allergy waiting list was reduced by almost 60% in only 24 days. CONCLUSIONS: Oral food challenges remain a vital tool in the care of allergic children, with their cost saving and quality‐of‐life benefits negatively affected by a delay in their delivery. This project has shown it is possible to have huge impacts on a waiting list efficiently, effectively and safely with good planning and staff buy‐in—even in a pandemic. Adoption of new, flexible and efficient models of service delivery will be important for healthcare delivery in the post–COVID‐19 era. |
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spelling | pubmed-84202362021-09-07 Mass food challenges in a vacant COVID‐19 stepdown facility: Exceptional opportunity provides a model for the future Byrne, Aideen M. Trujillo, Juan Fitzsimons, John Mohammed, Tariq Ghent, Robert O’Carroll, Cathryn Coghlan, David Hourihane, Jonathan O’B Alsaleemi, Ali Cassidy, Aoife Corbet, Eva Creighton, Rita d’Art, Yvonne Farren, Linda Flanagan, Rachel Flynn, Niamh Franklin, Ruth Gray, Claire Harding, Paul Hendrick, Ciara Heraghty, Fionnuala Hurley, Sadhbh Kavanagh, Valerie Lad, Dhanis Leddy, Karen Lewis, Sarah McGlynn, Triona O’Connor, Danielle O’Neill, Phil O’Shea, Orla O’Toole, Ann Quinn, Rachel Reid, Aisling Russell, Alison Ruth, Emma Rynne, Anne Sanneerappa, P Bhusan Sheehan, Mairead Thompson, Claire Tobin, Ciara Trayer, James Wallace, Alison Walsh, Nicola Wilson, Fiona Pediatr Allergy Immunol ORIGINAL ARTICLES BACKGROUND: Internationally, the COVID‐19 pandemic severely curtailed access to hospital facilities for those awaiting elective/semi‐elective procedures. For allergic children in Ireland, already waiting up to 4 years for an elective oral food challenge (OFC), the restrictions signified indefinite delay. At the time of the initiative, there were approx 900 children on the Children's Health Ireland (CHI) waiting list. In July 2020, a project was facilitated by short‐term (6 weeks) access to an empty COVID stepdown facility built, in a hotel conference centre, commandeered by the Health Service Executive (HSE), Ireland. The aim of this study was to achieve the rapid roll‐out of an offsite OFC service, delivering high throughput of long waiting patients, while aligning with existing hospital policies and quality standards, international allergy guidelines and national social distancing standards. METHODS: The working group engaged key stakeholders to rapidly develop an offsite OFC facility. Consultant paediatric allergists, consultant paediatricians, trainees and allergy clinical nurse specialists were seconded from other duties. The facility was already equipped with hospital beds, bedside monitors (BP, pulse and oxygen saturation) and bedside oxygen. All medication and supplies had to be brought from the base hospital. Daily onsite consultant anaesthetic cover was resourced and a resuscitation room equipped. Standardized food challenge protocols were created. Access to the onsite hotel chef facilitated food preparation. A risk register was established. RESULTS: After 6 weeks of planning, the remote centre became operational on 7/9/2020, with the capacity of 27 OFC/day. 474 challenges were commenced: 465 (98%) were completed and 9 (2%) were inconclusive. 135 (29%) OFCs were positive, with 25 (5%) causing anaphylaxis. No child required advanced airway intervention. 8 children were transferred to the base hospital. The CHI allergy waiting list was reduced by almost 60% in only 24 days. CONCLUSIONS: Oral food challenges remain a vital tool in the care of allergic children, with their cost saving and quality‐of‐life benefits negatively affected by a delay in their delivery. This project has shown it is possible to have huge impacts on a waiting list efficiently, effectively and safely with good planning and staff buy‐in—even in a pandemic. Adoption of new, flexible and efficient models of service delivery will be important for healthcare delivery in the post–COVID‐19 era. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-07-28 2021-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8420236/ /pubmed/34152649 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pai.13580 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Pediatric Allergy and Immunology published by European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. |
spellingShingle | ORIGINAL ARTICLES Byrne, Aideen M. Trujillo, Juan Fitzsimons, John Mohammed, Tariq Ghent, Robert O’Carroll, Cathryn Coghlan, David Hourihane, Jonathan O’B Alsaleemi, Ali Cassidy, Aoife Corbet, Eva Creighton, Rita d’Art, Yvonne Farren, Linda Flanagan, Rachel Flynn, Niamh Franklin, Ruth Gray, Claire Harding, Paul Hendrick, Ciara Heraghty, Fionnuala Hurley, Sadhbh Kavanagh, Valerie Lad, Dhanis Leddy, Karen Lewis, Sarah McGlynn, Triona O’Connor, Danielle O’Neill, Phil O’Shea, Orla O’Toole, Ann Quinn, Rachel Reid, Aisling Russell, Alison Ruth, Emma Rynne, Anne Sanneerappa, P Bhusan Sheehan, Mairead Thompson, Claire Tobin, Ciara Trayer, James Wallace, Alison Walsh, Nicola Wilson, Fiona Mass food challenges in a vacant COVID‐19 stepdown facility: Exceptional opportunity provides a model for the future |
title | Mass food challenges in a vacant COVID‐19 stepdown facility: Exceptional opportunity provides a model for the future |
title_full | Mass food challenges in a vacant COVID‐19 stepdown facility: Exceptional opportunity provides a model for the future |
title_fullStr | Mass food challenges in a vacant COVID‐19 stepdown facility: Exceptional opportunity provides a model for the future |
title_full_unstemmed | Mass food challenges in a vacant COVID‐19 stepdown facility: Exceptional opportunity provides a model for the future |
title_short | Mass food challenges in a vacant COVID‐19 stepdown facility: Exceptional opportunity provides a model for the future |
title_sort | mass food challenges in a vacant covid‐19 stepdown facility: exceptional opportunity provides a model for the future |
topic | ORIGINAL ARTICLES |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8420236/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34152649 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pai.13580 |
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