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Title:

Legal Preparedness: Care of the Critically Ill and Injured During Disasters and Pandemics: CHEST Consensus Statement

Authors:

Brooke Courtney, James G. Hodge, Jr., Eric S. Toner, Beth E. Roxland, Matthew S. Penn, Asha V. Devereaux, Jeffrey R. Dichter, Niranjan Kissoon, Michael D. Christian, Tia Powell, on behalf of the Task Force for Mass Critical Care

Date posted:

August 21, 2014

Publication type:

Article

Publication:

Chest 2014;146(Suppl 4):e134S-e144S

Publisher:

CHEST Journal

DOI:

10.1378/chest.14-0741

Availability:

Online only on publisher's website

Introduction:

The critically ill are a unique group of patients in disaster response as they require resource-intensive care, need advanced and costly therapies, and require specialized settings and providers to deliver this care^(1-2). They can present with a sudden surge of patients over a short period of time, pushing the limits of the healthcare facility, or they can present over a sustained period of time, such as the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, straining the larger regional health-system.

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