OBJECTIVE: To establish an isolated fully-functional Field Intensive Care Unit (FICU) unit equipped with all necessary critical care facilities as a part of the national pre-emptive preparedness to treat an unexpected surge outbreak of COVID-19 patients in Bahrain. DESIGN: Conversion of one floor of an existing car park into a 130-bedded ICU set-up by in-house project implementation team comprising of multidisciplinary departments. SETTING: Military hospital in the Kingdom of Bahrain. RESULT: One floor of the car park inside the premise of the hospital was converted into an isolated 130 bedded FICU comprising of 112-bedded fully equipped ICU and 18-bedded step-down ICU in 7days to cater to the intensive care of COVID-19 patients in Bahrain.

reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. carbon dioxide 30 [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] mmHg and median temperature 37.1 [36.8-37.3]°C. After removal of artefacts, the mean monitoring time was 22 h08 (8 h54). All patients had impaired cerebral autoregulation during their monitoring time. The mean IAR index was 17 (9.5) %. During H 0 H 6 and H 18 H 24 , the majority of our patients; respectively 53 and 71 % had an IAR index > 10 %. Conclusion According to our data, patients with septic shock had impaired cerebral autoregulation within the first 24 hours of their admission in the ICU. In our patients, we described a variability of distribution of impaired autoregulation according to time. ReferencesSchramm P, Klein KU, Falkenberg L, et al. Impaired cerebrovascular autoregulation in patients with severe sepsis and sepsis-associated delirium. Crit Care 2012; 16: R181. Aries MJH, Czosnyka M, Budohoski KP, et al. Continuous determination of optimal cerebral perfusion pressure in traumatic brain injury. Crit. Care Med. 2012.