Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Clinical review: SARS – lessons in disaster management. | Critical Care August 2005 Vol 9 No 4 Hawryluck et al. Review Clinical review SARS - lessons in disaster management Laura Hawryluck1 Stephen E Lapinsky2 and Thomas E Stewart3 Assistant Professor of Critical Care University Health Network and the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada 2Mount Sinai Hospital and the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada 3University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital and the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada Corresponding author Laura Hawryluck Published online 13 January 2005 This article is online at http content 9Z4 384 2005 BioMed Central Ltd Critical Care 2005 9 384-389 DOI cc3041 Abstract Disaster management plans have traditionally been required to manage major traumatic events that create a large number of victims. Infectious diseases whether they be natural . SARS severe acute respiratory syndrome and influenza or the result of bioterrorism have the potential to create a large influx of critically ill into our already strained hospital systems. With proper planning hospitals health care workers and our health care systems can be better prepared to deal with such an eventuality. This review explores the Toronto critical care experience of coping in the SARS outbreak disaster. Our health care system and in particular our critical care system were unprepared for this event and as a result the impact that SARS had was worse than it could have been. Nonetheless we were able to organize a response rapidly during the outbreak. By describing our successes and failures we hope to help others to learn and avoid the problems we encountered as they develop their own disaster management plans in anticipation of similar future situations. Introduction The Commission recognizes the skill and dedication of so many individuals in the .
