HDU/normal wars ratio

[samdevoldere]

Anybody who knows what the best ratio of HDU beds to a bed on the normal ward is? Is it 1 for 3 or more like 1 for 10 normal beds?

[Cas]

I generally do about 1 to 4 or 1 to 5 for general surgery and even down to 1 to 3 for cardio.

Internal medicine you can probably get away with 1 to 6 or 1 to 8

The way I see it it’s better to go more HDU if you can afford it - you can upgrade a regular to a HDU but you can’t downgrade, so to avoid surgeries being delayed due to no HDU beds I tend to make sure I have plenty. Also most collapses that TC has stabilised that don’t need ICU have to go direct to HDU even if mostly treated by TC

[Limskj]

One more thing, I have noticed now that there are patients who are sent from HDU back to Regular Ward, albeit by using the patient collapse function.

But typically, I will put 1 HDU bed per every 1.5-2 normal beds as I often play with cardiology open first, which gives you a lot of very unstable patients. :P

[samdevoldere]

Thanks all