• Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol · Oct 2021

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    Considerations for acute care staffing during a pandemic.

    • Niels Holthof and Markus M Luedi.
    • Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. Electronic address: niels.holthof@insel.ch.
    • Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol. 2021 Oct 1; 35 (3): 389404389-404.

    AbstractThe increase in interconnectedness of the global population has enabled a highly transmissible virus to spread rapidly around the globe in 2020. The COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) pandemic has led to physical, social, and economic repercussions of previously unseen proportions. Although recommendations for pandemic preparedness have been published in response to previous viral disease outbreaks, these guidelines are primarily based on expert opinion and few of them focus on acute care staffing issues. In this review, we discuss how working in acute care medicine during a pandemic can affect the physical and mental health of medical and nursing staff. We provide ideas for limiting staff shortages and creating surge capacity in acute care settings, and strategies for sustainability that can help hospitals maintain adequate staffing throughout their pandemic response.Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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