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NICU Disaster Preparedness:: Were We Ready for COVID-19?

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, along with natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, have led to decades of disaster preparedness planning. Despite the attention and focus on planning, many studies have found that hospitals are ill prepared to appropriately manage extended disasters....

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Autor principal: Winans, Melissa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Mosby 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7451054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32874142
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mnl.2020.08.015
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description The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, along with natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, have led to decades of disaster preparedness planning. Despite the attention and focus on planning, many studies have found that hospitals are ill prepared to appropriately manage extended disasters. The author completed her doctoral program capstone project on neonatal intensive care unit disaster preparedness. This article discusses lessons learned during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and what future disaster preparedness plans must consider.
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spelling pubmed-74510542020-08-28 NICU Disaster Preparedness:: Were We Ready for COVID-19? Winans, Melissa Nurse Lead Feature The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, along with natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, have led to decades of disaster preparedness planning. Despite the attention and focus on planning, many studies have found that hospitals are ill prepared to appropriately manage extended disasters. The author completed her doctoral program capstone project on neonatal intensive care unit disaster preparedness. This article discusses lessons learned during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and what future disaster preparedness plans must consider. Mosby 2020-12 2020-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7451054/ /pubmed/32874142 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mnl.2020.08.015 Text en 2020 by 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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