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. 2020 May 18;24(1):237.
doi: 10.1186/s13054-020-02955-x.

Logistic and organizational aspects of a dedicated intensive care unit for COVID-19 patients

Maria Vargas  1 , Giuseppe De Marco  2 , Stefania De Simone  3 , Giuseppe Servillo  2
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Logistic and organizational aspects of a dedicated intensive care unit for COVID-19 patients

Maria Vargas et al. Crit Care. .
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Upper box—organization of ICU before COVID-19 outbreak. Before the outbreak of COVID-19, our ICU was equipped with two main boxes including 5 beds each and one box with two beds for the infected patients. We also had several offices for medical and nursing staff. Lower box—organization of ICU dedicated to COVID-19 patients. The red area is a zone where the full PPE is mandatory. The yellow areas are the zone of decontamination while the green area is a clean one. The entrance of the first ICU box was the only entry point for COVID-19 patients. The green area inside the ICU is a clean zone where the medical and nursing staff may stay during the 12-h shift. The green area outside the ICU, equipped with shower facilities, clean scrubs, and clean supplies, is dedicated to the staff wash at the end of shift. The yellow areas are the filter of decontamination where the staff must change their scrubs, wash their body with disinfectants, and clean their shoes in the bowls with sodium hypochlorite 0.1 to 0.5 before accessing the green areas. Inside the red area, we set up two contamination filters, equipped with waste management material, mirror, and supply to wash the body and the hand, for doffing after the exiting from the ICU boxes
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