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. 2022 Oct;43(10):1521-1522.
doi: 10.1017/ice.2021.316. Epub 2021 Jul 12.

Containment of critically ill patients in the emergency department during the pandemic

Ming-Yuan Hong  1 , Chia-Lung Kao  1 , Chih-Hsien Chi  1
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Containment of critically ill patients in the emergency department during the pandemic

Ming-Yuan Hong et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2022 Oct.
No abstract available

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Fig. 1.
(A) Regular patient flow before the pandemics. (B) Patient flow during the pandemics. The left sides of panels A and B show the first-floor plan of the hospital, and the yellow area is the emergency department (ED). The blue dotted area of the ED was amplified and shown on the right side of panel A and B. The orange area within panel A and B is the negative pressure isolation area where 2 negative-pressure isolation rooms are located. Portable radiography, sonography, electrocardiography, airway and resuscitation management equipment is available in the isolation area. In panel A, patients enter the ED through the main entrance (black arrow), and patients suspected of COVID-19 disease are triaged to the isolation area. In panel B, patients are classified as not suspected of having COVID-19, suspected of having COVID-19 with low acuity, and suspected of having COVID-19 with high acuity before allocation to route 1, route 2, and route 3, respectively.
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