Contingency Planning
General Guidance
Health Care and Crisis Standards of Care for COVID-19 (National Academy of Medicine)
Guidance on crisis standards of care including PPE, critical care, ED, and outpatient capacity
Scarce Resource Management and Crisis Standards of Care (Washington State Dept of Health)
Provides guidance for medical surge during a large-scale disaster
Ventilator Allocation Guidelines (New York State Dept of Health)
Comprehensive guidelines based on review of ethical, clinical, and legal analysis; covers adult, pediatric, and neonatal populations
Medical Service Prioritization During an Influenza Pandemic (Public Health-Seattle & King County)
Assessment of public’s values and priorities regarding delivery of care
Framework to Guide Statewide Allocation of Scarce Mechanical Ventilation During Disasters (Chest)
Critical care disaster resource allocation framework from statewide community engagement process in Maryland
Patient Care Capacity
Waivers and Flexibilities for Hospitals and Other Healthcare Facilities (HHS)
Blanket waivers under the Emergency Declaration
Preparing Your ICU for Disaster Response (Society of Critical Care Medicine)
Handbook covering readiness assessment, leadership, communication, building ICU surgery capacity, alternative staffing strategies, etc.
How to Prepare Your ICU for COVID-19 (UW Medicine)
Regularly updated portal with staff, space, systems, crisis standards of care, and other key information
Augmenting Critical Care Capacity During a Disaster (Society of Critical Care Medicine)
Training video covering capacity, capability, critical care surge, staffing, etc.
Critical Care for the Non-ICU Clinician (Society of Critical Care Medicine)
Training resources to support non-ICU clinicians taking on critical care patients during a surge in demand
Telehealth
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Infection Control, Triage, & Assessment

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