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Assessing the Capacity of the US Health Care System to Use Additional Mechanical Ventilators During a Large-Scale Public Health Emergency

OBJECTIVE: A large-scale public health emergency, such as a severe influenza pandemic, can generate large numbers of critically ill patients in a short time. We modeled the number of mechanical ventilators that could be used in addition to the number of hospital-based ventilators currently in use. M...

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Autores principales: Ajao, Adebola, Nystrom, Scott V., Koonin, Lisa M., Patel, Anita, Howell, David R., Baccam, Prasith, Lant, Tim, Malatino, Eileen, Chamberlin, Margaret, Meltzer, Martin I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4636910/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26450633
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2015.105