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Organizational Impacts and Clinical Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic on a Swiss Tertiary Internal Medicine Department / Impacts organisationnels et defis cliniques de la pandemie COVID-19 pour un service hospitalier de medecine interne universitair
Non-conventional | WHO COVID | ID: covidwho-154692
ABSTRACT
The rapid progression of COVID-19 is an organizational challenge for all hospitals. To secure the patient overflow, the Department internal medicine of the University Hospital of Lausanne increased nurse and medical workforces as well as bed capacity by 65 %, with extraordinary help from other departments. The implemented crisis management stood upon three pillars  a crisis management team, steering documents and internal communication. In this new form, the Department had already taken care of 442 COVID-19 admissions by April 16, 2020. Alongside organizational challenges, clinical issues such as rapid respiratory distress, clinical suspicions with negative PCR and treatment uncertainties in the absence of sufficient evidence were overcome. Despite the peak of the pandemic appearing to have passed, the next phase could be just as complicated. La progression rapide du COVID-19 constitue un defi organisationnel pour tous les hopitaux. Pour anticiper un afflux important de patients, le service de medecine interne du CHUV a ainsi augmente ses forces de travail medico-soignantes et son nombre de lits de 65 % avec un soutien extraordinaire de toute linstitution. Pour operer ces changements majeurs, lorganisation de crise mise en place sest appuyee sur trois piliers  une cellule de conduite, des documents de pilotage et une communication interne. Sous cette nouvelle forme, le service a pris en charge 442 hospitalisations COVID-19 jusquau 16 avril 2020. Si les enjeux organisationnels ont ete majeurs, la gestion des situations complexes, comme les manifestations respiratoires et les multiples incertitudes cliniques diagnostiques et therapeutiques, ont ete egalement une gageure. Le pic de la pandemie semble passe, mais la prochaine phase pourrait constituer un nouveau defi organisationnel.
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Full text: Available Collection: Databases of international organizations Database: WHO COVID Type of study: Experimental Studies / Prognostic study Document Type: Non-conventional