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The serious health scenario that affects the metropolitan area generated by the pandemic, especially in the north of the capital, motivated the creation of the Covid Critical Unit (UCC) of the Clinical Hospital of the University of Chile (HCUCH), an initiative that was presented in its moment. Register a new auxiliary emergency module and 25 new critical cameras. The amplifiers make it possible to increase the capacity of the facility both for the separate care of patients with increased symptoms of COVID-19 and the reception of severe respiratory cases in intensive care and intensive care rooms.
Given these new expansions of the clinical hospital of the University of Chile, the rector Ennio Vivaldi was enthusiastic that “the fitness crisis requires everyone’s efforts. We have the enormous commitment of all the members of our community, of the other university groups that participated, in the entire physical body of our hospital workers who are on the front line against the pandemic. It is also important for the personal sector that has allowed it to truly carry out those projects that seek to strengthen our capacity to care at the times when the country wants it most. “We are committed to establishing alliances to contribute all our capacity to this emergency. ”
Uno de los frentes prioritarios abordados por el centro de salud universitario fue incrementar el número de unidades para la atención de pacientes críticos. La emergencia impulsó a la Unidad Crítica Covid a redoblar esfuerzos y habilitar -en tan sólo 12 días- 25 nuevas camas críticas en el hall de admisión del recinto. La sofisticada ampliación, inaugurada esta semana, abarca una superficie de 640 m2, y contempla 12 camas con ventilador para cuidados intensivos y otras 13 para cuidados intermedios.
This chart boils down to other responsibilities that specifically increase the number of critical patient rooms. “Before the pandemic, the total capacity of the critical rooms was 81 units, of which 18 had a fan. Now, with the new facilities, there is the capacity to house 138 critical rooms in total, 67 of which have a fan, indicates Dr. Eduardo Tobar, head of the UCC, who is specifically committed to the task of complementing the intermediate rooms. This has served the UCI in this process.
Estas instalaciones brindarán atención a pacientes graves, tanto en unidades de cuidado intensivo como intermedio. “Todos los pacientes intermedios tienen riesgo de necesitar eventualmente un ventilador. Ellos requieren una cánula nasal de alto flujo, un soporte respiratorio especial, que no es un ventilador, pero que también requiere monitoreo”, explica el Dr. Tobar. Este aumento de la capacidad de atención, agrega, representa un verdadero respiro para el sistema, sobre todo en la zona norte de la Capital. “Datos de la Sociedad Chilena de Medicina Intensiva (SOCHIMI) muestran que todavía tenemos cerca de 100 pacientes ventilados en los servicios de urgencia. Lo ideal es que esos pacientes estén en las unidades críticas”, advierte.
In recent years, a new auxiliary emergency module has also been inaugurated, an infrastructure that allows immediate care for patients with increased respiratory symptoms in a separate space, reducing the possibilities of intra-hospital contagion. The assignment was developed through students, academics and officials from the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning (FAU) of the University of Chile.
The facility, adjacent to the hospital, consists of 8 compartments, with the option of expanding to 10. It also includes a waiting room with capacity for 16 people, taking into account the need for preventive social distancing. The project, which will be replicated in other fitness spaces such as the Central Post Office, will be developed under an open-source license – freeing up the design, blueprints, manuals, technical specifications, assumptions and graphic decoration – so that all other organizations can manage it. and build more modules in the broadest sense of Chile.
The head of emergency at the University of Chile Clinical Hospital, Dr. César Cortés Marín, reported that this infrastructure “is very useful to respond well enough to a pandemic. The basic precept of isolated flows for patients suffering from coronavirus and those who are attentive to an immediate consultation, as well as one of the precepts that govern pandemics, which prevent the delivery of germs to the hospital rectum and can allow special attention. a special position implemented to satisfy Islam and, after care, complete with sufficiently good disinfection. This helps ensure the protection of private health and future patients. ”
Cerca de 75 personas participaron en el desarrollo de ambas iniciativas, labor que se realizó en tiempo récord gracias a la voluntad y compromiso de distintos equipos del Hospital, al apoyo de la Universidad, y de sus facultades de Medicina, Arquitectura y Urbanismo y Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas. Fundamental fue además el aporte de privados como la Fundación Luksic y la Confederación de la Producción y del Comercio (CPC) -instituciones que posibilitaron el desarrollo del proyecto para la incorporación de 25 nuevas camas críticas- y del Instituto Chileno del Acero (ICHA), Volcán, Tecpro, Gobantes, Hilti y CMPC, que contribuyeron con cerca del 70% de los materiales para la construcción del módulo auxiliar de emergencia.
The director and manager of the emergency auxiliary module, the architect of the University of Chile, Alastair Aguilera, said that this initiative “represents an unprecedented collaborative action, from where public and personal actors, the educational world, academics and public servants, worked in combination to raise this infrastructure to the mandatory in the face of the fitness crisis. This is the spirit of the network of the University of Chile and of many corporations that need to bring a concrete path to the country. “
The architect of the installation of 25 new critical rooms, Carolina Ochoa, believes that the work meant “intense coordination, in which we all participated to move the project forward. ” Move many spaces to insert the object as temporarily as possible. We can touch you with the organization and control of many sets and people. Intense work, but wonderful collaboration and commitment on the part of everyone. ”