• Zhenghong Liu, Tess Lin Teo, Mian Jie Lim, Gayathri Devi Nadarajan, Shashi S/O Chandra Segaram, Sanda Thangarajoo, Liang En Wee, Jeremy Choon Peng Wee, and TanKenneth Boon KiatKBKDepartment of Emergency Medicine Singapore General Hospital Singapore..
• SingHealth Emergency Medicine Residency Programme Singapore Health Services Singapore.
• J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open. 2020 Sep 25.

AbstractThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has placed large stressors on emergency departments (EDs) worldwide. As the pandemic progressed, EDs faced changing patient epidemiology and numbers. Our ED needed to rapidly transform to deal with the risk of COVID-19. Having limited floor space, we opted for a phased, dynamic response that allowed us to adapt the ED multiple times as the epidemiology of the pandemic evolved. The principles behind our response include guiding ED operations with data, enhancing infection control practices, and being prepared to transform areas of the ED to care for different groups of patients. Our experience can serve to guide other EDs in planning their response to surge capacity and ED operations during such pandemics.© 2020 The Authors. JACEP Open published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

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