Alternative Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Locations during the COVID-19 pandemic at an Academic Medical Center

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals around the globe have been inundated with critically-ill patients, which necessitate airborne isolation precautions and alterations in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nursing and provider practices.1 In addition, the sheer number of patients have overwhelmed ICU bed capacity in some locations, with several reports of hospitals who were forced to make difficult triage decisions limiting care for critically-ill patients with and without COVID-19.2,3 Several descriptions of expanding medical ICU bed capacity to accommodate COVID patients have been described.

Source: Heart and Lung - January 9, 2021 Category: Intensive Care Authors: Marlene S. Williams, Sammy Zakaria, Michelle D'Alessandro, Susan Kraeuter, Heather Hicks Source Type: research