TY - JOUR
T1 - Critical Care Surge Capacity to Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy
T2 - A Rapid and Affordable Solution in the Novara Hospital
AU - Cammarota, Gianmaria
AU - Ragazzoni, Luca
AU - Capuzzi, Fabio
AU - Pulvirenti, Simone
AU - De Vita, Nello
AU - Santangelo, Erminio
AU - Verdina, Federico
AU - Grossi, Francesca
AU - Vaschetto, Rosanna
AU - Della Corte, Francesco
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine.
PY - 2020/8/1
Y1 - 2020/8/1
N2 - The rapid insurgence and spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) exceeded the limit of the intensive care unit (ICU) contingency plan of the Maggiore della Carità University Hospital (Novara, Italy) generating a crisis management condition. This brief report describes how a prompt response to the sudden request of invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) was provided by addressing the key elements of health care system surge capacity from contingency to crisis. In a short time and at a relatively low cost, a structural modification of a hospital aisle allowed to convert the general ICU into a COVID-19 unit, increasing the number of COVID-19 critical care beds by 107%.
AB - The rapid insurgence and spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) exceeded the limit of the intensive care unit (ICU) contingency plan of the Maggiore della Carità University Hospital (Novara, Italy) generating a crisis management condition. This brief report describes how a prompt response to the sudden request of invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) was provided by addressing the key elements of health care system surge capacity from contingency to crisis. In a short time and at a relatively low cost, a structural modification of a hospital aisle allowed to convert the general ICU into a COVID-19 unit, increasing the number of COVID-19 critical care beds by 107%.
KW - COVID-19
KW - acute respiratory failure
KW - crisis
KW - surge capacity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85086003472&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S1049023X20000692
DO - 10.1017/S1049023X20000692
M3 - Article
SN - 1049-023X
VL - 35
SP - 431
EP - 433
JO - Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
JF - Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
IS - 4
ER -