The critical care response to a hospital outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection: an observational study
2016
Background
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has caused several hospital outbreaks, including a major outbreak at King Abdulaziz Medical City, a 940-bed tertiary-care hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (August–September 2015). To learn from our experience, we described the critical care response to the outbreak.
Keywords:
- Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- Clinical Practice
- Emergency medicine
- Intensive care medicine
- Observational study
- Infection control
- Middle East respiratory syndrome
- Outbreak
- Mortality rate
- Intensive care unit
- Medicine
- Pediatrics
- Anesthesiology
- MEDLINE
- disaster planning
- Severe acute respiratory infection
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