Small but nimble: measures taken to face the COVID-19 pandemic in small French military hospitals.
Am J Manag Care
; 27(4): e135-e136, 2021 04 01.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2301502
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
To describe a complete panel of actions of the Service de Santé des Armées (SSA) (ie, French Military Health Service) that together contributed to prevent French health system saturation during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. STUDYDESIGN:
Observational retrospective study.METHODS:
Actions taken by military practitioners in the Parisian military hospitals, which contained 500 beds, to fight COVID-19 were listed and described.RESULTS:
The Parisian military hospitals were fully reorganized to offer 147% more intensive care unit beds and took care of 665 inpatients with COVID-19 while continuing their core mission of war-wounded military care. A strategy to prioritize the use of medicine and medical devices was designed to avoid shortages. Field intensive care unit deployment and airborne collective medical evacuation by the SSA's MoRPHEE system avoided hospital saturation.CONCLUSIONS:
Key facets of this achievement were interunit collaboration, esprit de corps, and health workers' adaptability. Small hospitals can provide a coherent answer to the COVID-19 pandemic, as long as they organize and prioritize the patients' care.
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
COVID-19
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Hospitals, Military
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Europa
Language:
English
Journal:
Am J Manag Care
Journal subject:
Health Services
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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