Porterville Alternate Care Site Provision of Oxygen at COVID-19 Pandemic Peak

During the COVID-19 pandemic peak, the author deployed twice to an emergency Alternate Care Site in Porterville, California. The provision of oxygen to patients there, as seen from a physician’s perspective, does not fully support the description in a recently published article of how the State of C...

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Autor principal: Montauk, Lance
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2022
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Report from the Field
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9767898/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35929485
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2022.172
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description During the COVID-19 pandemic peak, the author deployed twice to an emergency Alternate Care Site in Porterville, California. The provision of oxygen to patients there, as seen from a physician’s perspective, does not fully support the description in a recently published article of how the State of California approached oxygen logistics during the COVID-19 surge. To inform future planning, an adequate logistical assessment must include not only approaches for solving technical resource challenges, but also reliable numbers regarding end-user resource utilization, and non-utilization, as well as program costs, benefits, and unintended consequences.
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spelling pubmed-97678982022-12-21 Porterville Alternate Care Site Provision of Oxygen at COVID-19 Pandemic Peak Montauk, Lance Disaster Med Public Health Prep Report from the Field During the COVID-19 pandemic peak, the author deployed twice to an emergency Alternate Care Site in Porterville, California. The provision of oxygen to patients there, as seen from a physician’s perspective, does not fully support the description in a recently published article of how the State of California approached oxygen logistics during the COVID-19 surge. To inform future planning, an adequate logistical assessment must include not only approaches for solving technical resource challenges, but also reliable numbers regarding end-user resource utilization, and non-utilization, as well as program costs, benefits, and unintended consequences. Cambridge University Press 2022-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9767898/ /pubmed/35929485 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2022.172 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.
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title_short Porterville Alternate Care Site Provision of Oxygen at COVID-19 Pandemic Peak
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9767898/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35929485
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