A descriptive analysis of patients admitted to the intensive care unit of the 10th Combat Support Hospital deployed in Ibn Sina, Baghdad, Iraq, from October 19, 2005, to October 19, 2006

Journal of Intensive Care Medicine
Jonathan B LundyJohn B Holcomb

Abstract

Although a review of the 1-month experience of a British intensive care unit (ICU) deployed in 2003 to Iraq outlining its care of 47 patients exists, a descriptive study outlining patient characteristics, workload, and outcomes of an ICU during a long-term deployment to Operation Iraqi Freedom is lacking in the medical literature. Between October 19, 2005, and October 19, 2006, the 10th Combat Support Hospital (CSH) deployed in an ICU to Ibn Sina Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq. Staff prospectively collected patient admission data from November 1, 2005, to August 31, 2006, in handwritten logbooks. This information included nationality (United States/Iraqi/other), military versus civilian, mechanism of injury or nontrauma admission diagnosis, ICU length of stay (LOS), and outcome. These data were retrospectively reviewed for the purpose of reporting the experience of the 10th CSH ICU during its deployment. The 10th CSH ICU admitted 875 patients during the study period. This represented 27% of all hospital admissions (n = 3289). Categories of patients admitted to the ICU included United States military, US contractor, Iraqi military, Iraqi civilian, non-US contractor, coalition military personnel, and security internee. Three patients ...Continue Reading

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