Establishing A 130-Bed Field Intensive Care Unit To Prepare For Covid-19 In 7 Days In Bahrain Military Hospital

Establishing A 130-Bed Field Intensive Care Unit To Prepare For Covid-19 In 7 Days In Bahrain Military Hospital

Author(s)

Dr. Nayef Louri,   Dr. Jalal Abdulla Alkhan, Hayyan Hamad Isa, Yaser Asad, Abdulla Alsharooqi,  Khalifa Ahmed Alomari,  Dr. Nahed Kamal Hasan,   Dr. Fahad Bin Khalifa Alkhalifa,  Ghaida Fareed Ahmed,  Muna Yaqoob Alasmi,  Dana Khalifa Al-Khalifa,  Dr. Khalid Bin Ali Al Khalifa

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.

Concepts in Disaster Medicine

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2020.297