Surge Capacity

  • Children's Hospitals Not Equipped to Handle Pandemics
    A new study of children's hospitals nationwide has found them underequipped to handle a major surge of patients in the event of a pandemic, and urges healthcare institutions and government agencies to immediately review emergency preparedness plans as flu season approaches. ...More
    August 23, 2011
    Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
  • Widespread School Closures Needed to Stop Strain on Hospitals During Epidemics
    Selective schools closures has been considered as a means of reducing transmission between children and hence reducing the number of cases at the peak of an epidemic but new research led by researchers at the University of Warwick shows that limited school closures are ...More
    February 2, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Researchers Examine Use of a Triage Scoring System in Flu Pandemic
    Kayode A Adeniji and Rebecca Cusack, of the Critical Care Research Unit at Southampton General Hospital, in Southampton, UK, report that triage protocols are only initiated when it is apparent that resource deficits will occur across a broad geographical area despite ...More
    January 26, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Kontrol Kube Introduces New Advanced Containment System
    The Kontrol Kube Advanced Containment System from Fiberlock Technologies is a new highly versatile and mobile negative pressure environment for use during facilities' maintenance for dust control or for augmentation of existing patient isolation and additional surge ...More
    July 30, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Federal Funds Support Health Departments but Leadership is Key
    By Amy Patterson NeubertThe surge of funds for bioterrorism preparedness over the past decade does not appear to be improving local public health resources in general, according to research from Purdue University. However, the funding increase to health departments does ...More
    March 9, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Flu Could Trigger Hospital Bed Shortage
    Trust for America's Health (TFAH) released a new report today that finds 15 states could run out of available hospital beds during the peak of the outbreak, if 35 percent of Americans were to get sick from the H1N1 flu virus. Twelve additional states could reach or exceed ...More
    October 1, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Are You Ready for the Next Influenza Outbreak?
    Conflicting reports in the media have healthcare professionals wondering exactly what this year’s influenza season will bring – a pandemic of novel H1N1 flu or a mild seasonal outbreak. In late August, the media seized upon a presidential advisory panel report ...More
    September 24, 2009
    Posted in Articles, PPE & Standard Precautions
  • HHS Releases Two New Reports on Pandemic Preparedness
    The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has released a report, “State and Local Pandemic Influenza Preparedness: Medical Surge,” in which the agency hoped to determine the extent to which selected states ...More
    September 21, 2009
    Posted in News
  • 'Virtual World' Training for Public Health Emergencies
    Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health are conducting a study to determine if collaborative virtual environments improve public health preparedness and response planning. The study is funded by a $1.6 million grant from the Centers for ...More
    June 12, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Simulating Public Health Disaster Can Assist Hospitals in Preparing for Worst-Case Scenarios
    A new and novel computer modeling platform developed through intensive, multidisciplinary collaboration at New YorkUniversity can help hospitals and cities to be more prepared for catastrophic public health scenarios, according to an article published in the American ...More
    June 11, 2009
    Posted in News
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