TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wurmb, Thomas
A1  - Scholtes, Katja
A1  - Kolibay, Felix
A1  - Schorscher, Nora
A1  - Ertl, Georg
A1  - Ernestus, Ralf-Ingo
A1  - Vogel, Ulrich
A1  - Franke, Axel
A1  - Kowalzik, Barbara
T1  - Hospital preparedness for mass critical care during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
JF  - Critical Care
N2  - Mass critical care caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 pandemic poses an extreme challenge to hospitals. The primary goal of hospital disaster preparedness and response is to maintain conventional or contingency care for as long as possible. Crisis care must be delayed as long as possible by appropriate measures. Increasing the intensive care unit (ICU) capacities is essential. In order to adjust surge capacity, the reduction of planned, elective patient care is an adequate response. However, this involves numerous problems that must be solved with a sense of proportion. This paper summarises preparedness and response measures recommended to acute care hospitals.
KW  - Mass critical care
KW  - Disaster response
KW  - SARS-CoV-2
KW  - Hospital emergency plan
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-230201
VL  - 24
ER  -