Critical care and pandemic preparedness and response

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Critical care was established partially in response to a polio epidemic in the 1950s. In the intervening 70 yr, several epidemics and pandemics have placed critical care and allied services under extreme pressure. Pandemics cause wholesale changes to accepted standards of practice, require reallocation and retargeting of resources and goals of care. In addition to clinical acumen, mounting an effective critical care response to a pandemic requires local, national, and international coordination in a diverse array of fields from research collaboration and governance to organisation of critical care networks and applied biomedical ethics in the eventuality of triage situations. This review provides an introduction to an array of topics that pertain to different states of pandemic acuity: interpandemic preparedness, alert, surge activity, recovery and relapse through the literature and experience of recent pandemics including COVID-19, H1N1, Ebola, and SARS.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:131

Enthalten in:

British journal of anaesthesia - 131(2023), 5 vom: 30. Nov., Seite 847-860

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Thomson, William R [VerfasserIn]
Puthucheary, Zudin A [VerfasserIn]
Wan, Yize I [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Critical care
Epidemic
Influenza
Journal Article
Pandemic
Preparedness
Review
Surge

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Date Completed 27.10.2023

Date Revised 13.11.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.bja.2023.07.026

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM361870272