Preparedness for establishing COVID-19 services during acute emergency of COVID-19 pandemic: Experience of a tertiary care TB and respiratory diseases hospital.
COVID-19
Hospital management
Infection control
Journal
The Indian journal of tuberculosis
ISSN: 0019-5707
Titre abrégé: Indian J Tuberc
Pays: India
ID NLM: 0373027
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Oct 2022
Oct 2022
Historique:
received:
13
07
2021
accepted:
24
09
2021
entrez:
2
12
2022
pubmed:
3
12
2022
medline:
7
12
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) calls for setting up of well-equipped and dedicated health facilities to manage sick patients while protecting healthcare workers and the environment. An ideal high-level isolation unit requires a high level of administrative commitment, availability of space, human resource and logistics. The experience of setting up COVID-19 care facilities on a noticeably short period in a tertiary TB and respiratory diseases institute in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic is being shared here. All the essential COVID-19 services were set up in record time of 8 days. A total of 115 COVID-19 patients were admitted. Out of these 89 patients were discharged in a satisfactory condition. There were 19 deaths, and 4 patients became critical and had to be referred to level 3 facility for ICU care. This experience will help other hospitals in planning out the strategies and solve the difficulties they may face while opening a COVID-19 care facility under limited resources on an urgent basis.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) calls for setting up of well-equipped and dedicated health facilities to manage sick patients while protecting healthcare workers and the environment. An ideal high-level isolation unit requires a high level of administrative commitment, availability of space, human resource and logistics.
METHOD
METHODS
The experience of setting up COVID-19 care facilities on a noticeably short period in a tertiary TB and respiratory diseases institute in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic is being shared here.
RESULT
RESULTS
All the essential COVID-19 services were set up in record time of 8 days. A total of 115 COVID-19 patients were admitted. Out of these 89 patients were discharged in a satisfactory condition. There were 19 deaths, and 4 patients became critical and had to be referred to level 3 facility for ICU care.
CONCLUSION
CONCLUSIONS
This experience will help other hospitals in planning out the strategies and solve the difficulties they may face while opening a COVID-19 care facility under limited resources on an urgent basis.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36460397
pii: S0019-5707(21)00217-1
doi: 10.1016/j.ijtb.2021.09.011
pmc: PMC8481114
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
608-612Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2021 Tuberculosis Association of India. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Conflicts of interest The authors have none to declare.
Références
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