COVID-19 Hospital Resources

Throughout the recent COVID outbreak, resources have been tested and refined by the Auckland DHBs. Some of these resources may be useful for other DHBs to either use directly or adapt for the local environment. The resources that have been developed by the DHBs are provided here as a central repository of information. There may be multiple versions of the same tool as DHBs will have adapted these for their local context and existing processes.

Webinar panel discussion summaries

• 23 November: Auckland-based DHBs COVID insights – ED and connections to the community
• 24 November: Auckland-based DHBs COVID insights – Inpatient and ICU
• November 2021: Auckland-based DHBs COVID insights – being patient focused amidst a pandemic
• 2 December 2021: Auckland-based DHBs COVID insights – ED, inpatient and clinical care
• 14 December 2021: Auckland-based DHBs COVID insights – radiology and allied health
• 15 December 2021: Auckland-based DHBs COVID insights – aged residential care
• 16 December 2021: Auckland-based DHBs COVID insights - maternity

General and staff tools

• Risk Assessment and Categorisation of Healthcare Workers Exposed to COVID-19

Emergency Department resources

• Waitematā Initial patient screening tool
• Counties Manukau Initial patient screening tool
• Auckland City Adult ED Initial patient screening tool
• Auckland City Adult ED Rapid Antigen Testing process for green screened patients in multi-bed rooms
• CMH ED Patient flow and equipment in the tent
• Auckland City Flow chart of disposition of COVID-19 patients from the Adult ED

In-patient ward resources

• Initial care of in-patients with COVID-19
• Being patient focused amidst a pandemic

This podcast also helps talk through the tool in more detail. 

• Auckland Planned Care Screening Testing Overarching Comms
• Auckland Guidelines on the Preoperative Diagnostic Workup for COVID-19
• Middlemore Pre-Operative Elective Patient Covid-19 Screening and Testing Process

Proning

• Guidance for awake prone positioning for COVID-19 patients
• Full prone
• Prone sitting
• Prone side lie
• Oxygen therapy and respiratory support for COVID-19 patients – guidelines
• Philips V60 setup guide (nursing protocol)

Critical care resources

• Managing COVID patients in hospital - non-clinical considerations from ICU clinicians
   

Hospital in the Home

• NRHCC Regional Clinical Guideline – Hospital in the Home (COVID)
• Counties Manukau Community Management of People with COVID-19 under the COVID Hospital in the Home Pathway

Allied health and radiology

• Covid-19 FAQs Auckland learnings
• Current infection services - patient screening form
• Self-management for adolescents and adults recovering from Covid-19