Search results for "Emergency preparedness"
Review offers a framework for hospitalists on emergency preparedness
Hospitalists' goals for emergency response should include facilitating rapid intake of patients to medicine services, offloading noncritically ill patients, and providing consultations to acute care services, the review said.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/10/17/3.htm
17 Oct 2018
Tool for PE, heart failure drugs
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/05/recent-research.htm
15 May 2019
Surge capacity: Is your hospital prepared?
On Sept. 11, 2001, within minutes of the terrorist attack at the World Trade Center, St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan in New York City activated its emergency external disaster plan.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/01/surge.htm
15 Jan 2007
COVID-19 in community hospitals
Hospitalists describe the steps they've taken to prepare for the pandemic.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/04/covid-19-in-community-hospitals.htm
15 Apr 2020
APPs key to pandemic planning
Advanced practice providers (APPs) shifted roles in preparation for a COVID-19 surge.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/08/perspectives-apps-key-to-pandemic-planning.htm
15 Aug 2020
Disaster preparedness
A recent Institute of Medicine report said too few health care facilities have established indicators to guide decisions during crises.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/02/disaster.htm
15 Feb 2014
With summer over, time to assess outbreak practices
Hospitalists play key role in ensuring effective response to disease outbreaks.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/09/outbreaks.htm
15 Sep 2014
Minneapolis bridge collapse tested local hospitals' emergency plans
Having a common command system in place was key to their swift response.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/11/bridge.htm
15 Nov 2007
Treatment on the fly: Mobile units help hospitals boost surge capacity
Portable “MASH-likeâ€ï¿½ hospital units are helping communities across the country improve their ability to respond to disasters and other events requiring extra capacity.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/09/disaster.htm
15 Sep 2009