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  2. 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 ...

  3. Chilton Memorial Hospital - Wikipedia

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    Mobile Intensive Care Unit (MICU) Chilton Medical Center operates two advanced life support paramedic units and two basic life support ambulances. ALS 901 operates 24 ...

  4. 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 ...

  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. 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 ...

  7. 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.

  8. List of Maryland fire departments - Wikipedia

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    Charles County Mobile Intensive Care Unit White Plains, MD None, EMS only None, EMS only None, EMS only Ambulance 607, Ambulance 608, Ambulance 609, Medic 60, Medic 60A, Career ALS Staffing Utility 60 Station 60

  9. List of countries by hospital beds - Wikipedia

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    A patient and clinicians in an intensive care unit. The availability of CCB-ICU beds, [43] mechanical ventilation [44] [45] and ECMO devices [46] generally closely associated with hospital beds has been described as a critical bottleneck in responding to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The lack of such devices dramatically raises the mortality ...