Experience of emergency department of large tertiary general hospital in coping with epidemic outbreak of COVID-19

ABSTRACT

Since December 2019, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become one of the most significant infectious diseases in the world. The epidemic in China has been basically controlled through a series of prevention and control measures. But the number of confirmed cases and deaths in other countries and regions is still rapidly rising. In response to this major epidemic, the hospital's emergency management system is facing a great challenge, especially the department of emergency, which takes the responsibilities of the screening and diagnosis of fe-ver patients as well as the emergency treatment of ordinary patients. Through two months of practice and exploration, our hospital has summa-rized some experiences in improving the emergency management system, establishing a peace and war integration mechanism, reorganizing medical resources, guaranteeing the deployment of supplies and optimizing information system, and has achieved the "zero infection" of medical staff, "zero misdiagnosis" and "zero cross-infection" of patients with COVID-19.