Essential Emergency and Critical Care : a consensus among global clinical experts

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BACKGROUND: Globally, critical illness results in millions of deaths every year. Although many of these deaths are potentially preventable, the basic, life-saving care of critically ill patients are often overlooked in health systems. Essential Emergency and Critical Care (EECC) has been devised as the care that should be provided to all critically ill patients in all hospitals in the world. EECC includes the effective care of low cost and low complexity for the identification and treatment of critically ill patients across all medical specialties. This study aimed to specify the content of EECC and additionally, given the surge of critical illness in the ongoing pandemic, the essential diagnosis-specific care for critically ill patients with COVID-19.

METHODS: In a Delphi process, consensus (>90% agreement) was sought from a diverse panel of global clinical experts. The panel iteratively rated proposed treatments and actions based on previous guidelines and the WHO/ICRC's Basic Emergency Care. The output from the Delphi was adapted iteratively with specialist reviewers into a coherent and feasible package of clinical processes plus a list of hospital readiness requirements.

RESULTS: The 269 experts in the Delphi panel had clinical experience in different acute medical specialties from 59 countries and from all resource settings. The agreed EECC package contains 40 clinical processes and 67 requirements, plus additions specific for COVID-19.

CONCLUSION: The study has specified the content of care that should be provided to all critically ill patients. Implementing EECC could be an effective strategy for policy makers to reduce preventable deaths worldwide.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:6

Enthalten in:

BMJ global health - 6(2021), 9 vom: 21. Sept.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Schell, Carl Otto [VerfasserIn]
Khalid, Karima [VerfasserIn]
Wharton-Smith, Alexandra [VerfasserIn]
Oliwa, Jacquie [VerfasserIn]
Sawe, Hendry R [VerfasserIn]
Roy, Nobhojit [VerfasserIn]
Sanga, Alex [VerfasserIn]
Marshall, John C [VerfasserIn]
Rylance, Jamie [VerfasserIn]
Hanson, Claudia [VerfasserIn]
Kayambankadzanja, Raphael K [VerfasserIn]
Wallis, Lee A [VerfasserIn]
Jirwe, Maria [VerfasserIn]
Baker, Tim [VerfasserIn]
EECC Collaborators [VerfasserIn]
EECC Collaborators* [VerfasserIn]
Asghar, Adam [Sonstige Person]
Laytin, Adam D [Sonstige Person]
Holloway, Adrian J [Sonstige Person]
Adib, Ahmed Rhassane El [Sonstige Person]
Michaelides, Alexia [Sonstige Person]
Munoz, Alvaro Coronado [Sonstige Person]
Muzuka, Amos [Sonstige Person]
Fernández, Analía [Sonstige Person]
Pembe, Andrea B [Sonstige Person]
Wellhagen, Andreas [Sonstige Person]
Smith, Andrew G [Sonstige Person]
Gadgil, Anita [Sonstige Person]
Hvarfner, Anna [Sonstige Person]
Abayadeera, Anuja [Sonstige Person]
Agulnik, Asya [Sonstige Person]
Godard, Aurélie [Sonstige Person]
Venkatesh, Balasubramanian [Sonstige Person]
Yousif, Bargo Mahamat [Sonstige Person]
Ben Morton, Bhakti Sarang [Sonstige Person]
Kumar, Bharath [Sonstige Person]
Vijayaraghavan, Tirupakuzhi [Sonstige Person]
King, Bobby [Sonstige Person]
Rice, Brian [Sonstige Person]
Louise Thwaites, C [Sonstige Person]
Tai, Chian Wern [Sonstige Person]
Owoo, Christian [Sonstige Person]
Sendagire, Cornelius [Sonstige Person]
Petersen, Dan Brun [Sonstige Person]
Tatay, Daniel [Sonstige Person]
Skinner, David Lee [Sonstige Person]
Kinyua, Denis [Sonstige Person]
Ghosh, Dhruva [Sonstige Person]
Aryal, Diptesh [Sonstige Person]
Mlombwa, Donald [Sonstige Person]
Thi, Duyen [Sonstige Person]
Bui, Hanh [Sonstige Person]
Lugazia, Edwin R [Sonstige Person]
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Heyns, Ellena [Sonstige Person]
Nsutebu, Emmanuel Fru [Sonstige Person]
Montalvo, Erika [Sonstige Person]
Moreno, Ernesto Gerardo [Sonstige Person]
Kanyangira, Esther Banda [Sonstige Person]
Muttalib, Fiona [Sonstige Person]
Mupeta, Francis [Sonstige Person]
Diaz, Franco [Sonstige Person]
Bulamba, Fred [Sonstige Person]
Nzanzu, Furaha [Sonstige Person]
Pascal, Blaise [Sonstige Person]
Wooldridge, Gavin [Sonstige Person]
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Ammar, Hala [Sonstige Person]
Mangat, Halinder S [Sonstige Person]
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Shah, Hiral A [Sonstige Person]
Shum, Hoi Ping [Sonstige Person]
Abdullahi, Ibrahim Salim [Sonstige Person]
Martin-Loeches, Ignacio [Sonstige Person]
von der Osten, Ingrid T [Sonstige Person]
Mcknight, Jacob [Sonstige Person]
Lee, James S [Sonstige Person]
Namagga, Jane Kasozi [Sonstige Person]
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Armour-Marshall, Jasmine [Sonstige Person]
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Metcalfe, John Z [Sonstige Person]
Moore, Jolene [Sonstige Person]
Blixt, Jonas [Sonstige Person]
Langton, Josephine [Sonstige Person]
Mejia, Juan Gutierrez [Sonstige Person]
Silesky-Jiménez, Juan Ignacio [Sonstige Person]
Soni, Kapil Dev [Sonstige Person]
Kohne, Karl Martin [Sonstige Person]
Rowan, Kathryn [Sonstige Person]
Yokobatake, Kazuhiro [Sonstige Person]
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Akuamoah-Boateng, Kwame Asante [Sonstige Person]
Irestedt, Lars [Sonstige Person]
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Jaung, Michael [Sonstige Person]
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English, Mike [Sonstige Person]
Lipcey, Miklos [Sonstige Person]
Khajanchi, Monty [Sonstige Person]
Ulisubisya, Mpoki [Sonstige Person]
Nyirenda, Mulinda [Sonstige Person]
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COVID-19
Health policy
Health services research
Health systems
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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Date Completed 30.09.2021

Date Revised 14.02.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006585

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM330901885