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Article: Modified critical care and treatment space considerations for mass casualty critical illness and injury.
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- Respiratory Care
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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Introduction
Scenarios
What is Emergency Mass Critical Care?
Treatment Space
Summary
Mass critical care events are increasingly likely, yet the resource challenges to augment everyday, unrestricted critical care for a surge of disaster victims are insurmountable for nearly all communities. In light of these limitations, an expert panel defined a circumscribed set of key critical care interventions that they believed could be offered to many additional people and yet would also continue to offer substantial life-sustaining benefits for nonmoribund critically ill and injured people. They proposed Emergency Mass Critical Care, which is based on the set of key ...