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DISASTER MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS
卷 15, 期 3, 页码 E37-E42出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2020.249
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Emergency medicine; emerging infectious diseases; infectious disease outbreak; surge capacity
The article discusses the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on healthcare services and the importance of surge capacity. Using Singapore's largest tertiary hospital as an example, it describes how a multi-story carpark was transformed into a flu screening area in response to the pandemic.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), first documented in December 2019, was declared a public health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO) on January 30, 2020 (https://www.who.int/westernpacific/emergencies/covid-19). The disease, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus, has affected more than 9 million people and contributed to at least 490,000 deaths globally as of June 2020, with numbers on the rise (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries). Increased numbers of patients seeking medical attention during disease outbreaks can overwhelm healthcare facilities, hence requiring an equivalent response from healthcare services. Surge capacity is a concept that has not only been defined as the ability to respond to a sudden increase in patient care demands (Hick et al., Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2008;2:S51-S57) but also to effectively and rapidly expand capacity (Watson et al., Milbank Q. 2013;91(1):78-122). This narrative review discusses how Singapore's largest tertiary hospital has encapsulated the elements of surge capability and transformed a peacetime multi-story carpark into a flu screening area in response to the COVID-19 disease outbreak.
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