Academic Journal
All for One and One for All: Voluntary Physicians in the Intensive Medicine Units During the COVID-19 Outbreak in Spain
| العنوان: | All for One and One for All: Voluntary Physicians in the Intensive Medicine Units During the COVID-19 Outbreak in Spain |
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| المؤلفون: | Nunez-Villaveiran, Teresa, González Castro, Alejandro, Nevado Losada, Emilio, García-de-Lorenzo, Abelardo, Garro, Pau |
| المساهمون: | Nunez-Villaveiran T Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Unit, Hospital General de Granollers, Granollers, Spain. González-Castro A Intensive Care Department, Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain. Nevado-Losada E Intensive Care Department, Hospital Universitario Príncipe de Asturias, Madrid, Spain. García-de-Lorenzo A Intensive Care Department, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain. Garro P Intensive Care Department, Hospital General de Granollers, Granollers, Spain, Hospital General de Granollers |
| المصدر: | Scientia |
| بيانات النشر: | Cambridge University Press |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | COVID-19 (Malaltia), Medicina intensiva, Hospitals - Planificació, HEALTH CARE::Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services::Health Facilities::Hospital Units::Intensive Care Units, ATENCIÓN DE SALUD::instalaciones, servicios y personal de asistencia sanitaria::centros sanitarios::unidades hospitalarias::unidades de cuidados intensivos |
| الوصف: | COVID-19; Intensive care medicine; Hospital organization ; COVID-19; Medicina intensiva; Organització hospitalària ; COVID-19; Medicina Intensiva; Organización hospitalaria ; Objectives: Our purpose was to determine the intensive care units' (ICU's) medical staff surge capacity during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in Spring 2020 in Spain. Methods: A multicenter retrospective survey was performed addressing the medical specialties present in the ICUs and the increase in bed capacity during this period. Results: Sixty-seven centers (62.04%) answered the questionnaire. The ICU bed capacity during the pandemic outbreak increased by 160% (95% confidence interval [CI], 128.97-191.03%). The average number of beds per intensive care medicine (ICM) specialist was 1.5 ± 0.60 and 3.71 ± 2.44 beds/specialist before and during the COVID-19 outbreak, respectively. Non-ICM specialists and residents were present in 50 (74.63%) and 23 (34.3%) ICUs during the outbreak, respectively. The number of physicians (ICM and non-ICM residents and specialists) in the ICU increased by 89.40% (95% CI, 64.26114.53%). The increase in ICM specialists was, however, 4.94% (95% CI, -1.35-11.23%). Most non-ICM physicians were anesthetists, followed by pediatricians and cardiologists. Conclusions: The majority of ICUs in our study were able to rapidly expand critical care capacity by adapting areas outside of the normal ICU to manage critically ill patients, and by extending the critical care staff with noncritical care physicians working as force multipliers. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness;16(2); https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2020.375; Nunez-Villaveiran T, González-Castro A, Nevado-Losada E, García-de-Lorenzo A, Garro P. All for One and One for All: Voluntary Physicians in the Intensive Medicine Units During the COVID-19 Outbreak in Spain. Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2022 Apr;16(2):612-8.; https://hdl.handle.net/11351/7878 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/dmp.2020.375 |
| الاتاحة: | https://hdl.handle.net/11351/7878 https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2020.375 |
| Rights: | Attribution 4.0 International ; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.BD52CC98 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.1017/dmp.2020.375 |
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