Assembly Line ICU: what the Long Shops taught us about managing surge capacity for COVID-19

Objectives To safely expand and adapt the normal workings of a large critical care unit in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.Methods In April 2020, UK health systems were challenged to expand critical care capacity rapidly during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic so that they could accommodate...

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Published in:	BMJ Open Quality
Main Authors:	Dhruv Parekh, Julian Bion, Peter Isherwood, Neil Abeysinghe, John Kelly, Mansoor Bangash, Jaimin Patel, David Riddington, Tomasz Torlinski, Nicholas Talbot, Tonny Veenith, Catherine Snelson, Tony Whitehouse, Carla Richardson, Callum Oakley, Craig Pascoe, Daivd Balthazor, Davinia Bennett, Nandan Gautam, John Isaac, Tracie Matthews, Nick Murphy, Tessa Oelofse, Jeremy Willson, Fiona Wyton, Abby Ford, Alejandro Barrios, Andy Johnston, Anwar Shah, Bill Tunnicliffe, Brian Pouchet, David Hume, Deborah Turfrey, Gregory Packer, Harjot Singh, Ian Ewington, Kaye England, Laura Tasker, Mav Manji, Mike Knowles, Mohammed Arshad, Nilesh Parekh, Phillip El-Dalil, Randeep Mullhi, Ravi Chauhan, Ravi Hebballi, Richard Browne, Sam Denham, Sandeep Walia, Shraddha Goyal, Steffen Kroll, Sue Sinclair, Tom Clutton-Brock, William Tosh, Zahid Khan
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BMJ Publishing Group 2020-11-01
Online Access:	https://bmjopenquality.bmj.com/content/9/4/e001117.full