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Allocating Scarce Resources in Disasters: Emergency Department Principles
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This article reviews key concepts from the disaster literature, providing the emergency physician with a framework of ethical and operational principles on which medical interventions provided may be adjusted according to demand and the resources available.About:Â
This article is published in Annals of Emergency Medicine.The article was published on 2012-03-01. It has received 154 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Triage & Preparedness.read more
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Crisis Standards of Care: A Systems Framework for Catastrophic Disaster Response
TL;DR: Crisis Standards of Care provides a framework for a systems approach to the development and implementation of CSC plans, and addresses the legal issues and the ethical, palliative care, and mental health issues that agencies and organizations at each level of a disaster response should address.
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Ethical Guidance for Disaster Response, Specifically Around Crisis Standards of Care: A Systematic Review
TL;DR: This systematic review identifies the most oft-used and -discussed ethical concepts and principles used in disaster planning around CSCs, including duty to care, utilitarianism, and a number of others.
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Surge Capacity Principles: Care of the Critically Ill and Injured During Pandemics and Disasters: CHEST Consensus Statement
John L. Hick,Sharon Einav,Dan Hanfling,Dan Hanfling,Niranjan Kissoon,Jeffrey R. Dichter,Asha V. Devereaux,Michael D. Christian +7 more
TL;DR: The suggestions in this article are important for all who are involved in large-scale disasters or pandemics with injured or critically ill multiple patients, including front-line clinicians, hospital administrators, and public health or government officials.
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Creating a Palliative Care Inpatient Response Plan for COVID-19-The UW Medicine Experience.
James A. Fausto,Lianne Hirano,Daniel Lam,Amisha Mehta,Blair Mills,Darrell Owens,Elizabeth J. Perry,J. Randall Curtis +7 more
TL;DR: A multifaceted strategy to implement high-quality palliative care in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic that incorporates conventional, contingency, and crisis capacity and focuses on the areas of the hospital caring for the most patients: the emergency department, intensive care units, and acute care services is shared.
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Virtual reality and live simulation: a comparison between two simulation tools for assessing mass casualty triage skills.
Pier Luigi Ingrassia,Luca Ragazzoni,Luca Carenzo,Davide Colombo,Alba Ripoll Gallardo,Francesco Della Corte +5 more
TL;DR: Virtual reality simulation proved to be a valuable tool, equivalent to live simulation, to test medical students’ abilities to perform mass casualty triage and to detect improvement in such skills after a teaching session.
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Intergenerational equity: an exploration of the 'fair innings' argument
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