Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Surge 2025

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  1. Click 'Get Form' to open the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Surge Capacity Plan Template in the editor.
  2. Begin by entering your institution's name and the date created or revised at the top of the form. This ensures that all stakeholders are aware of the document's origin.
  3. Fill out the PICU Details and Contacts section, including bed capacity and emergency contacts. This information is crucial for effective communication during a surge event.
  4. In the Surge Triage Space section, specify locations for triaging patients during surge events. Clearly outline staffing needs to ensure adequate care.
  5. Complete the Staff Roles and Schedules table to track personnel availability. This helps in managing shifts effectively during high-demand situations.
  6. Review and modify any sections as necessary based on your facility’s existing emergency operations plan, ensuring compliance with local policies.

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A medical surge occurs when patient volumes challenge or exceed a hospitals servicing capacityoften but not always tied to high volume of patients in a hospitals emergency room. Medical surges can occur after a mass casualty incident.
Terminal lucidity (also known as rallying, terminal rally, the rally, end-of-life-experience, energy surge, the surge, or pre-mortem surge) is an unexpected return of consciousness, mental clarity, or memory shortly before death in individuals with severe psychiatric or neurological disorders.
Medical surge capacity refers to the ability to evaluate and care for a markedly increased volume of patientsone that challenges or exceeds normal operating capacity. The surge requirements may extend beyond direct patient care to include such tasks as extensive laboratory studies or epidemiological investigations.
The nurses will be looking after them with as much care as they did when this was life sustaining treatment. Nurses may take out drips and lines if they are not needed by the patient. Once a person is at the end of life, it will not be as important to check their blood pressure, heart rate and oxygen levels so often.
In the context of this SOP, the term surge describes pressure on the whole adult critical care system rather than an individual critical care unit or region.