Disaster Preparedness, Triage, and Surge Capacity for Hospital Definitive Care Areas: Optimizing Outcomes when Demands Exceed Resources

Disaster planning must anticipate how demands imposed by a disaster reconcile with the capacity of the treating facility. Resources must be organized before an event so that they are optimally used to treat as many victims as possible, as well as to avoid overwhelming available resources.

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Autores principales: Roccaforte, J. David, Cushman, James G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7185660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17400163
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anclin.2007.01.002
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spelling pubmed-71856602020-04-28 Disaster Preparedness, Triage, and Surge Capacity for Hospital Definitive Care Areas: Optimizing Outcomes when Demands Exceed Resources Roccaforte, J. David Cushman, James G. Anesthesiol Clin Article Disaster planning must anticipate how demands imposed by a disaster reconcile with the capacity of the treating facility. Resources must be organized before an event so that they are optimally used to treat as many victims as possible, as well as to avoid overwhelming available resources. Elsevier Inc. 2007-03 2007-05-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7185660/ /pubmed/17400163 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anclin.2007.01.002 Text en Copyright © 2007 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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title Disaster Preparedness, Triage, and Surge Capacity for Hospital Definitive Care Areas: Optimizing Outcomes when Demands Exceed Resources
title_full Disaster Preparedness, Triage, and Surge Capacity for Hospital Definitive Care Areas: Optimizing Outcomes when Demands Exceed Resources
title_fullStr Disaster Preparedness, Triage, and Surge Capacity for Hospital Definitive Care Areas: Optimizing Outcomes when Demands Exceed Resources
title_full_unstemmed Disaster Preparedness, Triage, and Surge Capacity for Hospital Definitive Care Areas: Optimizing Outcomes when Demands Exceed Resources
title_short Disaster Preparedness, Triage, and Surge Capacity for Hospital Definitive Care Areas: Optimizing Outcomes when Demands Exceed Resources
title_sort disaster preparedness, triage, and surge capacity for hospital definitive care areas: optimizing outcomes when demands exceed resources
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7185660/
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