1. [Emergency and disaster response in critical care unit in the Mexican Social Security Institute: triage and evacuation].
- Author
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Echevarría-Zuno S, Cruz-Vega F, Elizondo-Argueta S, Martínez Valdés E, Franco-Bey R, and Méndez-Sánchez LM
- Subjects
- Coma, Emergency Medical Services supply & distribution, Emergency Shelter organization & administration, Equipment and Supplies, Hospital, First Aid instrumentation, Health Services Needs and Demand, Humans, Intensive Care Units, Mass Casualty Incidents, Mexico, Multiple Organ Failure prevention & control, Multiple Organ Failure therapy, Patient Care Team, Pharmaceutical Preparations supply & distribution, Respiration, Artificial instrumentation, Severity of Illness Index, Transportation of Patients methods, Transportation of Patients organization & administration, Academies and Institutes organization & administration, Disaster Planning, Emergency Medical Services organization & administration, Social Security organization & administration, Triage ethics, Triage organization & administration
- Abstract
Providing medical assistance in emergencies and disaster in advance makes the need to maintain Medical Units functional despite the disturbing phenomenon that confronts the community, but conflict occurs when the Medical Unit needs support and needs to be evacuated, especially when the evacuation of patients in a Critical Care Unit is required. In world literature there is little on this topic, and what is there usually focuses on the conversion of areas and increased ability to care for mass casualties, but not about how to evacuate if necessary, and when a wrong decision can have fatal consequences. That is why the Mexican Social Security Institute gave the task of examining these problems to a working group composed of specialists of the Institute. The purpose was to evaluate and establish a method for performing a protocol in the removal of patients and considering always to safeguard both staff and patients and maintain the quality of care.
- Published
- 2013