https://socictopen.socict.org/files/original/66a32ee16be6b885a76b10ec66d05c51.pdf 47430288bef068d8d85621dbcd46a28c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coronavirus Description An account of the resource Dominio científico: Coronavirus Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Reorganising the emergency department to manage the COVID-19 outbreak. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Evelyn Wong, Ying Ying Chua, Chin Siah Lim, Tzay-Ping Fua, Li Juan Joy Quah, Paul Weng Wan, Boon Kiat Kenneth Tan, Choon Peng Jeremy Wee, Gayathri Nadarajan, Nur Diana Zakaria, Shi-En Joanna Chan, Lin Tess Teo, Anantharaman Venkataraman Description An account of the resource The COVID-19 disease outbreak that first surfaced in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, has taken the world by storm and ravaged almost every country in the world. Emergency departments (ED) in hospitals are on the frontlines, serving an essential function in identifying these patients, isolating them early whilst providing urgent medical care. This outbreak has reinforced the role of Emergency Medicine in public health. This paper documents the challenges faced and measures taken by a tertiary hospital's ED in Singapore, in response to the outbreak. The ED detected the first case of COVID-19 in Singapore on 22 January 2020 in a Chinese tourist and also the first case of locally transmitted COVID-19 on 3 February 2020. The patient journeys through the patient reception area in the ED and undergoes fever screening before being shunted to isolation areas within the ED. Management and disposition of suspect COVID-19 patients are guided by a close-knit collaboration between ED and department of infectious diseases. With increasing number of patients, back-up plans for expansion of space and staff augmentation have been enacted. Staff safety is also of utmost importance, with provision and guidelines for personal protective equipment and team segregation to ensure no cross-contamination across staff. These have been made possible with an early setup of an operational command and control structure within the ED, managing manpower, logistics, operations, communication and information management and liaison with other clinical departments. With the large numbers of undifferentiated patients managed by the ED to date, more than 820 patients with COVID-19 have been identified in the hospital. Not a single member of the staff of the SGH Emergency Department has come down with the illness. The various measures undertaken by the department have helped to ensure good staff morale and strict adherence to safety procedures. We share the lessons learnt so that others who manage EDs around the world can benefit from our experience. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020 Subject The topic of the resource emergency department, COVID-19 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DOI: 10.1186/s12245-020-00294-w Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived International Journal of Emergency Medicine Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available BMC