Strategic Surge Responses in the COVID-19 Era: Operational Themes, Innovative Solutions and Lessons Learned by Three Freestanding Pediatric Emergency Departments

• 2023

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• Yongtian Tina Tan; Cortney Braund; Kevin Carney; Natasha Gill; Bradley Goldberg; Emily Hartford; Bernadette Johnson; Ashley Keilman; Kimberly Stone; Hiromi Yoshida; Deborah Liu
PMID: 37381670DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2023.75

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This article describes how three pediatric emergency departments in the western U.S. handled challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights issues like low patient numbers at first, then sudden increases with Delta and Omicron variants, along with supply chain problems and staff shortages. The departments had to rethink their usual ways of working and come up with new strategies to manage these surges. The study shares what they learned to help others prepare for future pandemics in pediatric care settings.

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Hazard: Infectious Disease

Audiences: EMS Clinicians; Nurses; Physicians

Emergency Management Stage: Response

Keywords: Emergency Service, Hospital; Pediatric Emergency Medicine; Surge Capacity; COVID-19

Institutions: Seattle Children's Hospital

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