Abstract
This article reports the establishment of an isolated, fully functional field intensive care unit (FICU) unit equipped with all necessary critical care facilities as a part of the national pre-emptive preparedness to treat an unexpected surge outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients in Bahrain. One floor of an existing car parking structure was converted into a 130-bed FICU set-up by the in-house project implementation team comprised of multidisciplinary departments. The setting was a military hospital in the Kingdom of Bahrain, and the car park was on the hospital premises. The FICU contained a 112-bed fully equipped ICU and an 18-bed step-down ICU, and was built in 7 d to cater to the intensive care of COVID-19 patients in Bahrain.
Highlights
This article reports the establishment of an isolated, fully functional field intensive care unit (FICU) unit equipped with all necessary critical care facilities as a part of the national pre-emptive preparedness to treat an unexpected surge outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients in Bahrain
There was an immediate requirement of additional ICU beds as part of the Bahrain National pre-emptive preparedness plan to match up to the World Health Organization (WHO) reported COVID-19 patient treatment data
In March 2020, Bahrain National Task force (BNTF) took up the initiative to establish 4 field intensive care units (FICU) with additional 500 ICU beds for the outbreak
Summary
This article reports the establishment of an isolated, fully functional field intensive care unit (FICU) unit equipped with all necessary critical care facilities as a part of the national pre-emptive preparedness to treat an unexpected surge outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients in Bahrain. There was an immediate requirement of additional ICU beds as part of the Bahrain National pre-emptive preparedness plan to match up to the WHO reported COVID-19 patient treatment data. In March 2020, BNTF took up the initiative to establish 4 field intensive care units (FICU) with additional 500 ICU beds for the outbreak. The Bahrain Defence Force Royal Medical Services (BDF-RMS) military hospital was given the responsibility to establish a fully equipped FICU in its premise as a part of the national plan to combat the outbreak. The objective of this study is to enable the replication of this model of emergency infrastructure preparedness plan to treat COVID-19 patients
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