Battling COVID-19: critical care and peri-operative healthcare resource management strategies in a tertiary academic medical centre in Singapore
| Autor: | B. Lewin, Ccm Lee, B. Rippin, W. H. Wong, R. V. Agrawal, S. Thampi, T. J. D. Lim |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Critical Care Pneumonia Viral Disease Disease cluster medicine.disease_cause Perioperative Care 03 medical and health sciences Betacoronavirus 0302 clinical medicine 030202 anesthesiology COVID‐19 Pandemic Health care peri‐operative Medicine Humans Resource management resource management 030212 general & internal medicine Intensive care medicine Pandemics Coronavirus Academic Medical Centers Singapore business.industry Transmission (medicine) SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak COVID-19 healthcare Original Articles Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Practice Guidelines as Topic Original Article business Coronavirus Infections |
| Zdroj: | Anaesthesia |
| ISSN: | 1365-2044 |
| Popis: | Summary In December 2019, a cluster of atypical pneumonia cases were reported in Wuhan, China, and a novel coronavirus elucidated as the aetiologic agent. Although most initial cases occurred in China, the disease, termed coronavirus disease 2019, has become a pandemic and continues to spread rapidly with human‐to‐human transmission in many countries. This is the third novel coronavirus outbreak in the last two decades and presents an ensuing healthcare resource burden that threatens to overwhelm available healthcare resources. A study of the initial Chinese response has shown that there is a significant positive association between coronavirus disease 2019 mortality and healthcare resource burden. Based on the Chinese experience, some 19% of coronavirus disease 2019 cases develop severe or critical disease. This results in a need for adequate preparation and mobilisation of critical care resources to anticipate and adapt to a surge in coronavirus disease 2019 case‐load in order to mitigate morbidity and mortality. In this article, we discuss some of the peri‐operative and critical care resource planning considerations and management strategies employed in a tertiary academic medical centre in Singapore in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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