Practical challenges of managing COVID-19 positive patients in the adult intensive care unit of a tertiary care teaching hospital of Ireland

Anaesthesia, Pain & Intensive Care

ARTICLE

ShankarLal¹  Ehtesham Khan²  Muhammad Anwar Malik¹ 

[1] Royal College of Surgeons Hospital Group;College of Anaesthetists Ireland, Royal College of Surgeons Hospital Group

关键词: COVID-19;    Pandemic;    Ventilation;    Critical care;    Critical care unit;   

DOI  :  10.35975/apic.v24i3.1275

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: THK

【 摘 要 】

The COVID-19 pandemic has attracted our focus to those important aspects of health care facilities in which we were severely lacking. Due to the unprecendeted nature of this pandemic, even the more developed nations of the world were not prepared to handle the challenges it presented. The current surge of critical patients of COVID-19 has led to a severe burden on our acute and critical care services, resulting in a significant increase in the demand and supply of hospital staff and equipment. There has been such pandemics in the past and they may occur again in future. Thus, to handle the current challenges, several measures must be adopted to handle the surge in confirmed critical cases, such as: expanding hospital capacity of critical area by converting noncritical area to critical areas, training and deployment of non-critical care staff to participate in delivering critical care brainstorming and implementing innovative approaches to obtain, conserve, and increase the efficiency of our available supply of physical equipment.

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC