Definitive Care for the Critically Ill During a Disaster: Medical Resources for Surge Capacity* From a Task Force for Mass Critical Care Summit
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2008;133;32-50 Chest Daniel Talmor, Brian Erstad, Justine Medina and James A. Geiling Suzi Burns, Michael D. Christian, Asha V. Devereaux, Jeffrey R. Dichter, Lewis Rubinson, John L. Hick, J. Randall Curtis, Richard D. Branson, 2007, Chicago, IL 26 27, Critical Care Summit Meeting, January Capacity: From a Task Force for Mass Disaster: Medical Resources for Surge Definitive Care for the Critically Ill During a http://chestjournal.org/cgi/content/abstract/133/5_suppl/32S and services can be found online on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information ). ISSN: 0012-3692. http://www.chestjournal.org/misc/reprints.shtml ( of the copyright holder may be reproduced or distributed without the prior written permission Northbrook IL 60062. All rights reserved. No part of this article or PDF by the American College of Chest Physicians, 3300 Dundee Road, 2007 Physicians. It has been published monthly since 1935. Copyright CHEST is the official journal of the American College of Chest
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Definitive care for the critically ill during a disaster: current capabilities and limitations: from a Task Force for Mass Critical Care summit meeting, January 26-27, 2007, Chicago, IL.
In the twentieth century, rarely have mass casualty events yielded hundreds or thousands of critically ill patients requiring definitive critical care. However, future catastrophic natural disasters, epidemics or pandemics, nuclear device detonations, or large chemical exposures may change usual disaster epidemiology and require a large critical care response. This article reviews the existing ...
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