Given the rapidly changing nature of COVID-19, clinicians and policy makers require urgent
review and summary of the literature, and synthesis of evidence-based guidelines to inform …

Intensive care clinicians are often uncertain as to what triage truly means and entails in a
disaster situation. Their uncertainty likely stems from a lack of experience among clinicians …

Objectives: To update the Society of Critical Care Medicine's guidelines for ICU admission,
discharge, and triage, providing a framework for clinical practice, the development of …

Objectives: Detailed data on occupancy and use of mechanical ventilators in US ICU over
time and across unit types are lacking. We sought to describe the hourly bed occupancy and …

BACKGROUND: Pandemics and disasters can result in large numbers of critically ill or
injured patients who may overwhelm available resources despite implementing surge …

A public health emergency, such as an influenza pandemic, will lead to shortages of
mechanical ventilators, critical care beds, and other potentially life-saving treatments …

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 …

Health care facility surge capacity has received significant planning attention recently, but
there is no commonly accepted framework for detailed, phased surge capacity …

En enero de 2020 China identificó un nuevo virus de la familia de los Coronaviridae como
causante de varios casos de neumonía de origen desconocido. Inicialmente confinado a la …

Objective: The Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score has been recommended
for triage during a mass influx of critically ill patients, but it requires laboratory measurement …