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cord-320945-swr3l0ur	Liu, Zhenghong	Dynamic emergency department response to the evolving COVID‐19 pandemic: the experience of a tertiary hospital in Singapore	2020-09-25		.txt	text/plain	3371	163	49	Given that even a single patient in a crowded ED can potentially ignite a nosocomial outbreak of a novel respiratory pathogen, 3 with devastating consequences and the prospect of ED closure, 3, 4 it is crucial to ensure that hospital EDs can continue to operate safely throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, without becoming hotbeds for disease transmission. 6 Over the next few months, our ED rapidly developed and implemented a response plan that maximized the limited physical space and allowed our ED to appropriately manage patients with different risk profiles for COVID-19,while simultaneously maintaining adequate protection for other patients and staff. In general, patients requiring non-ambulatory care in the first phase of our response were at low risk of COVID-19, given that imported cases At the same time, our ED was also experiencing an increase in non-ambulatory suspect COVID-19 cases, given the older age profile of patients presenting during this phase.	./cache/cord-320945-swr3l0ur.txt	./txt/cord-320945-swr3l0ur.txt