BACKGROUND Mass critical care entails time-sensitive decisions and changes in the
standard of care that it is possible to deliver. These circumstances increase provider …

Background. Terrorism, disease outbreaks, and other natural disasters and mass casualty
events have pushed health care and public health systems to identify and refine emergency …

Natural disasters, industrial accidents, terrorism attacks, and pandemics all have the
capacity to result in large numbers of critically ill or injured patients. This supplement …

Introduction: Pandemic influenza or other crises causing mass respiratory failure could
easily overwhelm current North American critical care capacity. This threat has generated …

Background During a catastrophe, health-care providers may face difficult questions
regarding who will receive limited life-saving resources. The ethical principles that should …

As clinicians and support personnel struggle with their responsibilities to treat during the
current COVID-19 pandemic, several ethical issues have emerged. Will healthcare workers …

Background Conducting research during or in the aftermath of disasters poses many specific
practical and ethical challenges. This is particularly the case with research involving human …

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted health care systems' vulnerabilities.
Hospitals face increasing risk of periods of scarcity of life-sustaining resources such as …

During the COVID-19 pandemic, evidence-based resources have been sought to support
decision-making and strategically inform hospitals' policies, procedures, and practices …

Abstract New York City hospitals expanded resources to an unprecedented extent in
response to the COVID pandemic. Thousands of beds, ICU beds, staff members, and …