… care units (ICU), in disaster response and management. The involvement of critical care
personnel in both hospital and regional disaster … delivery of care for the critically ill in disasters. …

… In that context, it is important for critical care professionals to speak with our political leaders
… of critical care in a disaster and work with them to develop coordinated plans for disaster …

… care unit is one component of the disaster response framework. It is important for hospitals
to have staff with critical care experience involved in disaster management. The intensive …

… care requirements as outlined above, we believe that it is appropriate to consider the development
of national Disaster Critical Care … called Fundamentals of Disaster Management (FDM…

… Disaster management plans have traditionally been required … ill patients, and disaster
management planning should take … the Toronto critical care experience of coping in a disaster …

… The system will need to ensure that those who will not benefit greatly with allocation of critical
care … Disaster managers recognize that rules that usually apply to medical care are not …

… A search was undertaken for a viable model for delivering critical care services in the
immediate post-disaster period. Such a model already exists in the US Air Force's (USAF) …

… hospitals may be compromised when the underlying disaster affects either the receiving …
to field critical care units, there will always be a certain element of obligatory prehospital care. …

… emergency management organizations and provides a chain of commands for emergency
response. Telemedicine is still not widely integrated into disaster management organizations …

… critical care. This manuscript summarizes the current US and Canadian critical care disaster
… Force for critical care surge capacity and allocation of scarce life-sustaining interventions. …