December 31, 2020
In an effort to provide a “blueprint” to other hospitals needing additional space to treat patients with COVID-19, one New York-based team published an outline of how they converted their cath labs to intensive care unit (ICU) space and back again.
“By the time the surge was spreading across the Midwest, with reports of parking garages being converted to field hospitals, California running out of ICU beds, and a second wave spreading across Europe, it felt absolutely imperative that we write [this paper],” senior author Anna Bortnick, MD, PhD, MSc (Jack D. Weiler Hospital, Bronx, NY), told TCTMD in an email.