BMJ open quality
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To safely expand and adapt the normal workings of a large critical care unit in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. ⋯ We report how the challenge of managing a huge influx of patients and redeployed staff was met by deconstructing ICU care into its constituent parts. Although reported from the largest colocated ICU in the UK, we believe that this offers solutions to ICUs of all sizes and may provide a generalisable model for critical care pandemic surge planning.