Radiology Department, Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Via Francesco Sforza, 35, 20122, Milan, Italy.
Center for Interventional Oncology, Radiology and Imaging Sciences, NIH Clinical Center and National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Radiol Med. 2020 Sep;125(9):894-901. doi: 10.1007/s11547-020-01248-1. Epub 2020 Jul 11.
Preparedness for the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and its spread in Italy called for setting up of adequately equipped and dedicated health facilities to manage sick patients while protecting healthcare workers, uninfected patients, and the community. In our country, in a short time span, the demand for critical care beds exceeded supply. A new sequestered hospital completely dedicated to intensive care (IC) for isolated COVID-19 patients needed to be designed, constructed, and deployed. Along with this new initiative, the new concept of "Pandemic Radiology Unit" was implemented as a practical solution to the emerging crisis, born out of a critical and urgent acute need. The present article describes logistics, planning, and practical design issues for such a pandemic radiology and critical care unit (e.g., space, infection control, safety of healthcare workers, etc.) adopted in the IC Hospital Unit for the care and management of COVID-19 patients.
应对正在发生的 2019 年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）及其在意大利的传播，需要建立配备齐全和专门的卫生设施，以管理患病患者，同时保护医护人员、未感染患者和社区。在我国，短时间内对重症监护病床的需求超过了供应。需要设计、建造和部署一个专门用于隔离 COVID-19 患者的重症监护（IC）的全新隔离医院。随着这一新举措的开展，还实施了新的“大流行放射科单元”概念，作为对紧急危机的切实可行的解决方案，这一概念源自于关键和紧急的急性需求。本文介绍了在为 COVID-19 患者提供护理和管理的 IC 医院病房中采用的大流行放射科和重症监护单元（例如，空间、感染控制、医护人员安全等）的后勤、规划和实际设计问题。
