Translating COVID-19 Pandemic Surge Theory to Practice in the Emergency Department: How to Expand Structure.

ABSTRACT: Multiple professional societies, nongovernment and government agencies have studied the science of sudden onset disaster mass casualty incidents to create and promote surge response guidelines. The COVID-19 pandemic has presented the health-care system with challenges that have limited science to guide the staff, stuff, and structure surge response.This study reviewed the available surge science literature specifically to guide an emergency department's surge structural response using a translational science approach to answer the question: How does the concept of sudden onset mass casualty incident surge capability apply to the process to expand COVID-19 pandemic surge structure response?The available surge structural science literature was reviewed to determine the application to a pande

SUBMITTER: Paganini M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7156581 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature