Open AccessLogistical Considerations and Clinical Outcomes Associated With Converting Operating Rooms Into an Intensive Care Unit During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic in a New York City Hospital
Author(s) -
Aaron Mittel,
Oliver Panzer,
David S. Wang,
Steven E. Miller,
Jacob Schaff,
Maya Jalbout Hastie,
Lauren Sutherland,
Tricia E. Brentjens,
Julia Sobol,
Almarie Cabredo,
Jonathan Hastie
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/ane.0000000000005301
Subject(s) - medicine , pandemic , covid-19 , intensive care unit , coronavirus , disease , medical emergency , betacoronavirus , intensive care medicine , emergency medicine , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged as a public health crisis that disrupted normal patterns of health care in the New York City metropolitan area. In preparation for a large influx of critically ill patients, operating rooms (ORs) at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center (NYP-Columbia) were converted into a novel intensive care unit (ICU) area, the operating room intensive care unit (ORICU).