Introduction and executive summary: care of the critically ill and injured during pandemics and disasters: CHEST consensus statement.

ABSTRACT: 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 provides suggestions for all of those involved in a disaster or pandemic with multiple critically ill patients, including front-line clinicians, hospital administrators, professional societies, and public health or government officials. The current Task Force included a total of 100 participants from nine countries, comprised of clinicians and experts from a wide variety of disciplines. Comprehensive literature searches were conducted to identify studies upon which evidence-based recommendations could be made. No studies of sufficient quality were identified. Therefore, the panel developed expert-opinion-based sugg

SUBMITTER: Christian MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7094437 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature