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DISASTER MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS
Volume 14, Issue 5, Pages E39-E41Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2020.64
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disease outbreaks; novel coronavirus; pandemia; severe acute respiratory syndrome; surge capacity
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Italy is fighting against one of the worst medical emergency since the 1918 Spanish Flu. Pressure on the hospitals is tremendous. As for official data on March 14th: 8372 admitted in hospitals, 1518 in intensive care units, 1441 deaths (175 more than the day before). Unfortunately, hospitals are not prepared: even where a plan for massive influx of patients is present, it usually focuses on sudden onset disaster trauma victims (the most probable case scenario), and it has not been tested, validated, or propagated to the staff. Despite this, the All Hazards Approach for management of major incidents and disasters is still valid and the 4S theory (staff, stuff, structure, systems) for surge capacity can be guidance to respond to this disaster.
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