Pandemic advances alternatives to hallway medicine

C Varner - 2020 - Can Med Assoc
Efforts to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Canadian hospitals
have produced a surprising change in emergency departments: an abrupt end to hallway …

COVID-19 surges then crickets and the impact on the emergency department workforce

A Huffman - Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2022 - annemergmed.com
Staffing issues have added professional uncertainty to the mix—in some cases, accelerating
trends that were already underway, such as an oversupply of emergency physicians …

[HTML][HTML] To solve our new emergency care crisis, let's start with the old one

JJ Baugh, BA White, PD Biddinger… - The American Journal …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
While the COVID-19 pandemic has generated many new challenges for emergency
departments (EDs) across the country, it has also created potential opportunities for the …

Implementing a 2019 coronavirus disease airway management strategy for a provincial critical care and ground transport program

S MacDonald, G Kovacs, T Witter, Y Leroux… - Canadian Journal of …, 2020 - cambridge.org
The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has challenged our healthcare system
on numerous fronts. The complexity and volume of critically ill patients pushed systems in …

Dividing the emergency department into red, yellow, and green zones to control COVID-19 infection; a letter to editor

CF Chong - Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2020 - ojs3.sbmu.ac.ir
Abstract COVID-19, in certain respects, can be viewed as a CBRN (chemical, biological,
radiological, or nuclear) event due to being a consequence of SARS-CoV2 virus (the †…

Hospitals rolling out the “welcome mat” to ease COVID-19 fears

C Varner - 2020 - Can Med Assoc
Clinical, chronically crowded and tough to navigate—few would describe hospitals as
welcoming at the best of times. And for many patients, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID …

Rapid Emergency Department Physical Space Modifications for COVID-19: Keeping Patients and Health Care Workers Safe

EG Wessling, AH Randolph, LA Neill… - Disaster Medicine and …, 2022 - cambridge.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed significant strain on emergency departments (EDs) that
were not designed to care for many patients who may be highly contagious. This report …

Emergency department 'outbreak rostering'to meet challenges of COVID-19

WLT Chua, LJJ Quah, Y Shen, ND Zakaria… - Emergency Medicine …, 2020 - emj.bmj.com
The COVID-19 outbreak has posed unique challenges to the emergency department
rostering. Additional infection control, the possibility of quarantine of staff and minimising …

[HTML][HTML] Where are the patients? The factors affecting the use of emergency care during Covid-19

L Vaughan - Nuffield Trust, 2020 - nuffieldtrust.org.uk
Long read: The number of people attending emergency departments during the coronavirus
outbreak has been the subject of much debate. Louella Vaughan looks at the different …

[CITATION][C] Hospitals experiencing'unprecedented'strain, may peak soon: health executive.

H McKenzie-Sutter - Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada), 2022 - go.gale.com
Ontario hospitals are experiencing staff shortages at an" unprecedented" level, an executive
at the provincial agency overseeing them says, but the situation may improve in the coming …