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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS
Volume 230, Issue 6, Pages 1080-+Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2020.03.019
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The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was first diagnosed in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and has now spread throughout the world, being verified by the World Health Organization as a pandemic on March 11. This had led to the calling of a national emergency on March 13 in the US. Many hospitals, healthcare networks, and specifically, departments of surgery, are asking the same questions about how to cope and plan for surge capacity, personnel attrition, novel infrastructure utilization, and resource exhaustion. Herein, we present a tiered plan for surgical department planning based on incident command levels. This includes acute care surgeon deployment (given their critical care training and vertically integrated position in the hospital), recommended infrastructure and transfer utilization, triage principles, and faculty, resident, and advanced care practitioner deployment. ((C)2020 by the American College of Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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