Assembly Line ICU: what the Long Shops taught us about managing surge capacity for COVID-19.
Callum OakleyCraig PascoeDaivd BalthazorDavinia BennettNandan GautamJohn IsaacPeter IsherwoodTracie MatthewsNick MurphyTessa OelofseJaimin M PatelCatherine SnelsonCarla RichardsonJeremy WillsonFiona WytonTonny V VeenithTony Whitehousenull nullPublished in: BMJ open quality (2020)
We report how the challenge of managing a huge influx of patients and redeployed staff was met by deconstructing ICU care into its constituent parts. Although reported from the largest colocated ICU in the UK, we believe that this offers solutions to ICUs of all sizes and may provide a generalisable model for critical care pandemic surge planning.