Log In. Forgot username? Forgot password? New User? Sign Up Free. You will not be able to claim credit during this period. The updated site is expected to be available again by 9 a. Central Time on November SCCM Resources. Download PDF version. We also seek to provide context to the data. Data is gathered by voluntary survey. Of these, These hospitals have , staffed operational acute care beds, including 96, ICU beds Table 1 , accounting for a median The ICU beds are categorized as adult, pediatric, or neonatal.
Additionally, there are 25, step-down beds, and burn-care beds. The proportion of ICU beds that are capable of negative-pressure isolation is not recorded in the AHA dataset; however, the hospitals studied reported a total of 42, airborne infection isolation rooms [AIIR] formerly known as negative-pressure isolation rooms.
The purpose of a negative-pressure room is to confine pathogens to a single closed environment with direct exhaust of air from the room thereby preventing the release of patient generated pathogens into adjacent spaces i.
Negative pressure is strongly recommended for patients with highly communicable droplets nuclei associated diseases such as COVID When negative pressure rooms are not available, portable high-efficiency particulate air HEPA filters that remove airborne contaminants may be placed in the patient rooms to help protect staff both inside and outside the room.
HEPA filters may also be included in a hospital's air handling system to ensure that air circulating to specific target areas, like operating rooms or bone marrow transplant room, is highly purified. Acute care hospitals by core-based statistical area: Of the U.
ICU occupancy rates: We have focused on U. Instead such data can be calculated from the Healthcare Cost Report Information System, a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services dataset composed of the cost reports submitted by every Medicare-certified hospital.
For contextual purposes, the occupancy rates do not reflect temporal or seasonal variations but instead represent national aggregates. Contingency and crisis beds for critically ill patients: The outbreak of COVID has generated concern that critically ill patients may overwhelm existing ICU bed availability. When contingency plans are implemented and elective surgeries and procedures are rescheduled, ICU beds normally used to provide perioperative support would become available to provide COVID care, as would operating rooms with ventilators and post-anesthesia care unit PACU beds.
At crisis levels, even non-monitored hospital beds may be mobilized but a significant investment of ICU-level facility infrastructure eg oxygen, gas, power, drainage , devices eg, physiological monitors, mechanical ventilators, crash carts and staff uptraining would be required. Making facility changes on this scale can take significant time and cause serious operational disruption at a time when those beds are most needed.
Beyond adjusting distribution and usage of existing hospital beds, there are a host of other options. This could be done in the United States. Local governments can also consider regionalizing or cohorting their critically ill COVID patients in designated large and high-acuity medical centers.
The benefit of this approach is that many of these medical centers already have great numbers of well-equipped ICU and step-down beds as well as trained staff, thereby allowing the remaining hospitals to principally care for non-COVID critically ill patients.
Additionally, opening previously shuttered hospital facilities or medical wards and updating their supportive utilities eg, power, data, air, oxygen, and suction should be considered. Retrofitting existing nonmedical buildings eg, hotels, dormitories into COVID care facilities has also been suggested, although this would be labor-intensive and expensive. These choices may be affected by the availability of medical devices as well as administrative and clinical staff, let alone the array of support services that are essential for quality care.
The U. Each of these hospital ships contains 12 fully equipped operating rooms, a bed hospital facility including 80 intensive care beds, 20 surgical recovery beds, and intermediate-care [step-down] beds , digital radiologic services, medical laboratory, pharmacy, optometry laboratory, CT capability, and two oxygen-producing plants.
Each ship is equipped with a helicopter deck capable of landing large military helicopters. The ships have side ports to take on patients at sea. Their crew comprises 71 civilians and up to Navy medical and communications personnel when operating at full capacity. Comparison of U. The United States has a significant number of critical care beds per capita compared with other countries Figure 1.
Many of these patients require mechanical ventilation. Supply of mechanical ventilators in U. This national analysis also identified an additional 98, non full-featured ventilators for use as surge devices. This study did not query hospitals about their ownership of anesthesia machines.
Nor did this study assess the number of anesthesia machines present in ambulatory surgery care centers. An analysis of the AHA dataset described earlier 4 reveals the presence of 33, operating rooms in the U. Of the total AHA hospital survey respondents, there were 35, operating rooms. If we assume that each operating room has an anesthesia machine, that adds another approximately 36, ventilators to the U. This number may be significantly increased if anesthesia machines present in ambulatory surgery care centers are included.
In simulation testing, they performed very well despite being in long-term storage. SNS delivery is dependent on a federal decision to deploy them; the delivery timeline may be variable. States may have their own ventilator stockpiles as well. Additionally, many modern anesthesia machines are capable of being adapted for ICU use and can augment a hospital's surge capacity. Adding together full-featured and basic hospital ventilators, SNS ventilators, and hospital-based anesthesia machines increases the estimated number of ventilators to over , devices nationally.
It is not known if the non-full-featured and SNS ventilators are capable of adequately supporting patients with severe acute respiratory failure. Also, supplies for these ventilators may be unavailable due to interruptions in the international supply chain. Device maintenance, refurbishment, and repair capabilities are therefore at risk. To our knowledge, anesthesia machines have not in the past been used for short or long-term support of patients with respiratory failure and would initially require anesthesia staff to operate and maintain them, as opposed to typical ICU ventilators, which hospital-based respiratory therapists are trained to operate and maintain.
A detailed projection study of the capacity to rapidly incorporate ventilators into the existing fleet suggests that U.
While many parameters were analyzed in this projection analysis, the rate-limiting feature is the absence of the requisite number of respiratory therapists to manage the ventilators in concert with skilled intensivists. Historical perspectives of ventilatory stockpiling and current approaches to enhance the ventilator supply: Several analyses dating back over a decade have addressed the requisite preparations of the United States to deal with natural, man-made, and infection-related disasters.
Many of these studies focused on surge capacity to provide mechanical ventilation for large numbers of patients acutely developing respiratory failure, whether due to mass casualty or influenza pandemic scenarios.
Moreover, the investigators found that only Even though the authors queried each state, the authors found that they could not develop an estimate of the overall U. Based on these findings, the authors concluded that the US is "woefully unprepared for an event requiring large numbers of ventilators.
In , a surge capacity consensus statement suggested the development of regional counts of ventilators coupled with establishing goals for regional ventilator stockpiles.
Additionally, the consensus statement recommended that hospitals ascertain their abilities to provide ventilatory support focusing on their identification of hospital areas capable of supporting mechanical ventilators based on existing or readily establishable infrastructure. Despite the multiple recommendations to enhance ventilator capacity, and a broad estimate of greater than , ventilators available nationwide, the New York and New Jersey epicenters of COVID in March and early April found themselves with ventilator shortages.
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These units may also be called wards. Some common kinds of non-ICU units are:. There are many types of units which provide specialty care such as burn, oncology wards, trauma ICUs, and neurologic ICUs. Patients in some types of units may be more likely to get infections than in other types of units.
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