Disaster preparedness, triage, and surge capacity for hospital definitive care areas: optimizing outcomes when demands exceed resources.
Disaster planning must anticipate how demands imposed by a disaster reconcile with the capacity of the treating facility. Resources must be organized before an event so that they are optimally used to treat as many victims as possible, as well as to avoid overwhelming available resources.
Roccaforte
J David
JD
Department of Anesthesiology, New York University, New York, NY, USA. jdavidr@mail.com
Cushman
James G
JG
D003422:Critical Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004189:Disaster Planning; D006295:Health Resources; D006742:Hospital Bed Capacity; D006801:Humans; D009519:New York City; D023481:Terrorism; D014218:Triage