intensive care unit admission, discharge, and triage.

- Acknowledgements

*Contribution*	Affiliation, Area of expertise / Primary location [work]	Name
*Chairperson of Committee*	Adviser to the Minister of Health for Emergency and Urgent Care, Professor of Intensive Care, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, and Consultant of Internal Medicine and Cardiology	Prof. Sherif Wadih Nashed
*Member*	Professor of Critical Care - Faculty of Medicine- Ain Shams University	Prof. Ashraf El Sayed Abdel Rahman El Ajmi
*Member*	Dean of the Faculty of Medicine – Assiut University	Prof. Alaa Mohamed Ahmed Attia
*Member*	Formar Head of the Central Administration of Critical and Emergency Care – Ministry of Health	Prof. Khaled Gamal Hassan Ali Suleiman El Khatib
*Member*	Professor of Critical Care – Kasr Al Ainy - Chairman of the Critical Care Fellowship Board	Prof. Hatem Hamed Hamed Al Atrosh
*Member*	Professor of Critical Care - Faculty of Medicine – Alexandria University	Prof. Mohamed Mostafa Abdel Salam Megahed
*Member*	Assistant Professor in the Department of Critical Care - Faculty of Medicine-Kasr Al Ainy – Cairo University	Prof. Mohamed Hosni Abdallah
*Member*	Assistant Professor of Critical Care – Faculty of Medicine-Minia University	Prof.Mohamed Omar Abdel Aziz Mohamed
*Member*	Assistant Scientific Consultant – Damanhour Teaching Hospital	Dr. Ayman Abdel Hamid Mahmoud El Tayyar
*Member*	Assistant Consultant - Liver Institute	Dr. Iman Ibrahim El Desouki Mahmoud Ghoneimi
*Member*	Supervisor of Emergency and Critical Care – Healthcare Authority	Dr. Mohamed Mahmoud Helmy Mohamed Badr
*Member*	Master’s in Health Economics – Unified Procurement Authority	Dr.Rymonda Rafaat Rizk Shenouda
*Member*	Vice President of Beni Suef University for Environmental Affairs and Community Service	Dr. Sameh Kamal Abdel Rahman Othman Al Maraghy
*Member*	Brigadier Doctor – Head of the Anesthesia and Critical Care Department – Medical Complex - Armed Forces	Brig. Dr. Magdy Fathy Mohamed Lotfy Abdel Maksoud
*Member*	PhD in Critical Care – Colonel Doctor - Armed Forces	Col. Dr. Yehia Abdel Tawab Mohamed Maki
*Member*	Consultant of Critical Care – Ministry of Interior	Lt. Col. Dr. Ahmed Adel Mahmoud Abdel Hamid Mareekb

Contribution

Affiliation, Area of expertise / Primary location [work]

Name

Clinical expert

management and crisis management expert

Adviser to the Minister of Health for Emergency and Urgent Care, Professor of Intensive Care, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, and Consultant of Internal Medicine and Cardiology

Prof. Sherif Wadih Nashed

Clinical expert

Assistant Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine. ,Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University

Dr. Amr Kamal

management and crisis management expert

Head of Central Administration of Emergency & Critical Care - Ministry of Health & Population

Dr. Mohammed Adel El-Sedfy

Clinical expert

MD cardiology

Consultant of cardiology national heart institute

Director of teaching hospital and institute

Dr. Ahmed Farghaly Ali

Clinical expert

Head of ICU Matarea teaching hospital

MD degree critical care Ain Shams university

Dr.Hend Abdel Sabour Mansour

Clinical expert

Consultant of Intensive Care Head of Icu department, Nasr city Insurance Hospital

Dr. Mohamed Nada

Clinical expert

Head of Icu dep.shoubra general hospital

Master degree in Intensive Care Ain Shams university

*Egyptian fellowship of Intensive Care

Dr. Marwa Mhmoud Abdelsamia

Clinical expert

Egyptian fellowship of Intensive Care

Head of ICU dep .dar Elsalam oncology hospital (Hermel )

Master degree in Intensive Care Ain shams university

Master degree in hospital administration faculty of commerce Ain shams university

Dr. Doaa Ali Ismail

Clinical expert

Critical care medicine Consultant, MD

Intensive care units administration manager - Central Administration of emergency and critical care- Ministry of Health & Population

Dr. Mohammed Salah Youssef

Clinical expert

Emergency Medicine Consultant

Head of the Emergency Department - Central Administration of Emergency & Critical Care - Ministry of Health & Population

Dr. Omar Nasr

Clinical expert

MD Community Medicine and Public health

Director of poison and burn care administration -Central Administration of emergency and critical care- Ministry of Health & Population

Dr. Mohamed Ali SeifEldin

Clinical expert

Emergency medicine Consultant

Former General Director of Emergency Management-Central Administration of emergency and critical care- Ministry of Health & Population

Dr. Diaaelden Abdelmawla Salama Ali

Clinical expert

Cardiology consultant

Egyptian fellowship of Cardiology

Egyptian fellowship of hospital management

Dr. Eriny Kamal Atalla

Clinical expert

Consultant of critical care.

Egyptian fellowship in critical care.

Leadership in medicine, Harvard medical School.

Head of emergency and critical care administration, Directorate of health affairs, Menoufia governorate.

Dr.Mahmoud Ali Abdelfattah Seria.

Clinical expert ,management and crisis management expert

General Director of Emergency Management-Central Administration of emergency and critical care- Ministry of Health & Population

Master emergency medicine

disaster medicine and management Diplome

Dr.Hossam Eldin Safwat Mohammed Eladly

Editor, Clinical expert

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care specialist

- Master of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

-Clinical scholar at Clinical Scholar Research Training Programme (CSRT) -Egypt at Harvard medical School

Dr. Reham Nashaat Nor ElDeen

Editor, Clinical expert ,management and crisis management expert

Curative & Critical Care Sector Representative , Crisis Management center, Ministry of Health & Population

Disaster Medicine Management Diploma

Mysara ahmed Abd-Elrazeik , B.Pharm

All gratitude is due to God Almighty for blessing this work, until it Has reached its end.

The Committee thanks Egyptian Health Council, the ministry of health and population, members of critical care, emergency and crisis management Task Force and the Central Administration of emergency and critical care Central Administration of emergency and critical care for their efforts and participation in developing the clinical guide.

The members of the committee acknowledge the limitations of these guidelines. As a result of the vast amount of medical and healthcare management information to consider, constraints to evaluate the published and rapidly available new evidence, human fallibility and fast progress among others, the reader has to use his own judgment on how best apply our suggestions and recommendations. Therefore, neither the Egyptian health council nor the authors of this document assume responsibility for any injury to individuals as a result of the use of this guide.

Funding

This work is not related to any pharmaceutical company. The members of the guideline’s adaptation group and their institute and universities volunteered their participation.