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Guidelines for intensive care unit design* - LearnICU.org
1586 Crit care Med 2012 Vol. 40, No. 5special articleMost healthcare providers have little experience designing and constructing an inten-sive care unit (ICU). These ICU Design Guidelines can make the pro-cess easier and the finished project more efficient, effective, safe, and patient cen-tered. These ICU Design Guidelines are performance Guidelines rather than pre-scriptive Guidelines . A prescriptive guide-line quantifies, as in the case of minimum square footage for a patient room, whereas a performance guideline describes functions to be accommodated. As an example, the space required for a patient room and medi-cal equipment in a community hospital will be less than what may be required in a ma-jor tertiary care institution.
Crit Care Med 2012 Vol. 40, No. 5 1587 ideally requires knowledge of both clinical best practice and building codes (5, 6). Due to the global nature of intensive
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