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Preparedness Lessons from Modern Disasters and Wars

Disasters come in all shapes and forms, and in varying magnitudes and intensities. Nevertheless, they offer many of the same lessons for critical care practitioners and responders. Among these, the most important is that well thought out risk assessment and focused planning are vital. Such assessmen...

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Autores principales: Dara, Saqib I., Farmer, J. Christopher
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7126643/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19268794
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ccc.2008.10.005
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description Disasters come in all shapes and forms, and in varying magnitudes and intensities. Nevertheless, they offer many of the same lessons for critical care practitioners and responders. Among these, the most important is that well thought out risk assessment and focused planning are vital. Such assessment and planning require proper training for providers to recognize and treat injury from disaster, while maintaining safety for themselves and others. This article discusses risk assessment and planning in the context of disasters. The article also elaborates on the progress toward the creation of portable, credible, sustainable, and sophisticated critical care outside the walls of an intensive care unit. Finally, the article summarizes yields from military-civilian collaboration in disaster planning and response.
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spelling pubmed-71266432020-04-08 Preparedness Lessons from Modern Disasters and Wars Dara, Saqib I. Farmer, J. Christopher Crit Care Clin Article Disasters come in all shapes and forms, and in varying magnitudes and intensities. Nevertheless, they offer many of the same lessons for critical care practitioners and responders. Among these, the most important is that well thought out risk assessment and focused planning are vital. Such assessment and planning require proper training for providers to recognize and treat injury from disaster, while maintaining safety for themselves and others. This article discusses risk assessment and planning in the context of disasters. The article also elaborates on the progress toward the creation of portable, credible, sustainable, and sophisticated critical care outside the walls of an intensive care unit. Finally, the article summarizes yields from military-civilian collaboration in disaster planning and response. Elsevier Inc. 2009-01 2009-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7126643/ /pubmed/19268794 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ccc.2008.10.005 Text en Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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