Triage: care of the critically ill and injured during pandemics and disasters: CHEST consensus statement.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pandemics and disasters can result in large numbers of critically ill or injured patients who may overwhelm available resources despite implementing surge-response strategies. If this occurs, critical care triage, which includes both prioritizing patients for care and rationing scarce resources, will be required. The suggestions in this chapter are important for all who are involved in large-scale pandemics or disasters with multiple critically ill or injured patients, including front-line clinicians, hospital administrators, and public health or government officials.

Methods

The Triage topic panel reviewed previous task force suggestions and the literature to identify 17 key questions for which specific literature searches were then conducted to identify studies

SUBMITTER: Christian MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7127536 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature