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  2. Medical scoring - Wikipedia

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    Glasgow Coma Scale (also named GCS) is designed to provide the status for the central nervous system. It is often used as part of other scoring systems. FOUR score - 17-point scale for the assessment of level of consciousness. Aims to have higher sensitivity and specificity then GCS, applicable in intubated patients. CMM - Cancer Mortality ...

  3. EXPLAINER: What happens when an ICU reaches capacity? - AOL

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    The latest surge in coronavirus cases is overwhelming many intensive care units, causing hospitals and states to run out of ICU beds in some locations. Arkansas said it ran out of ICU beds for ...

  4. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on ICU capacity - Wikipedia

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    One of the main drivers of the COVID-19 pandemic is Intensive Care Unit (ICU) capacity as resources such as hospital staff and personal protective equipment (PPE) are continuously used up. Although disaster planning for such a contingency had already taken place (and indeed has been updated), [ 1 ] the sheer scale of the impact first became ...

  5. Critical Access Hospital - Wikipedia

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    A review of CAHs in the early 2000s counted 26% of the hospitals providing intensive care-level treatment to at least one patient. About two-thirds of these hospitals had a physical intensive care unit, while the remainder provided intensive care treatment in areas of the hospital also treating acute care patients. The mean number of intensive ...

  6. Intensive care unit - Wikipedia

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    Intensive care unit ICU patients often require mechanical ventilation if they have lost the ability to breathe normally.. An intensive care unit (ICU), also known as an intensive therapy unit or intensive treatment unit (ITU) or critical care unit (CCU), is a special department of a hospital or health care facility that provides intensive care medicine.

  7. ICU quality and management tools - Wikipedia

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    New perspectives to improve critical care benchmarking. Salluh JIF, Chiche JD, Reis CE, Soares M.Ann Intensive Care. 2018 Feb 2;8(1):17. doi: 10.1186/s13613-018-0363-0. How to evaluate intensive care unit performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Zampieri FG, Soares M, Salluh JIF.Rev Bras Ter Intensiva. 2020 Jun;32(2):203-206. doi: 10.5935/0103 ...

  8. 2021 hospital crisis in the U.S. from COVID-19 - Wikipedia

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    The crisis affected their capacity to handle critically ill patients in need of treatment in intensive-care units. Many counties throughout the state were seeing more than 10 times the number of cases than they had two months earlier. The entire San Joaquin Valley, which has 312 ICU beds, saw its available beds fall to less than 5% of the total ...

  9. S'pore can raise ICU capacity, 'not enough' staff: Puthucheary

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    SINGAPORE — While Singapore has the resources to increase intensive care unit (ICU) capacity, it lacks the manpower to man the additional units effectively, said Senior Minister of State (SMS ...