Disaster medicine and public health preparedness
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Disaster Med Public Health Prep · Aug 2020
ReviewTranslating COVID-19 Pandemic Surge Theory to Practice in the Emergency Department: How to Expand Structure.
Multiple professional societies, nongovernment and government agencies have studied the science of sudden onset disaster mass casualty incidents to create and promote surge response guidelines. The COVID-19 pandemic has presented the health-care system with challenges that have limited science to guide the staff, stuff, and structure surge response. ⋯ The on-line ahead of print and print COVID-19 scientific publications, as well as gray literature were studied to learn the best available COVID-19 surge structural response science. A checklist was created to guide the emergency department team's COVID-19 surge structural response.