Differentiating Large-scale Surge versus Daily Surge |
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| Authors: | J. Lee Jenkins MD MSc Robert E. O'Connor MD MPH David C. Cone MD |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD;Department of Emergency Medicine, Christiana Care Health System, Newark, DE;Section of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT |
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| Abstract: | This breakout session at the Academic Emergency Medicine 2006 Consensus Conference examined how baseline overcrowding impedes the ability of emergency departments to respond to sudden, unexpected surges in demand for patient care. Differences between daily and catastrophic surge were discussed, and the need to invoke a hospital-wide response to surge was explored. |
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| Keywords: | disasters emergency departments |
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