@article{ref1,
title="Making space to save lives: a critical role for the hospitalist during mass casualty incidents",
journal="Disaster medicine and public health preparedness",
year="2022",
author="DeLuca, Michael A. and Greenwald, Jeffrey L. and Manners, Philip B. and Knuesel, Steven and Biddinger, Paul D.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: An effective hospital response to mass casualty incidents (MCIs) requires rapid mobilization of personnel capable of caring for critically ill trauma patients and availability of resuscitation resources. <br><br>METHODS: Hospitals facing an MCI wrestle with the challenge of immediately adjusting their overextended clinical operations to resuscitate a large number of rapidly arriving patients without compromising the care of existing patients. <br><br>RESULTS: Hospitalists are well positioned to add significant value by off-loading the emergency department (ED) given their broad clinical expertise. We describe our institution's protocol to generate immediate and sustained surge capacity by integrating our hospitalist service into MCI response. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Our protocol details the safe and rapid transfer of care of existing ED patients to hospitalist teams to make ED staff and space available to care for incoming MCI patients.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1935-7893",
doi="10.1017/dmp.2022.175",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2022.175"
}