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cord-017525-hvd7jv44	Jimenez, E. J.	Emergency Mass Critical Care	2009-11-19		.txt	text/plain	3881	221	44	Development of a response plan is requisite for any hospital to have a significant expectation to be able to respond in a meaningful way to a sudden disaster that leaves large amounts of the population seeking emergency medical care. Within this chapter we will focus our attention on the most important considerations for managing patient care within the hospital with an emphasis on critical care in response to a mass casualty incident (MCI), as we plan to expect the unexpected. Disaster preparedness medicine focuses on preparation, response, surge, administration of resources, and recovery from events that generate demands that overwhelm the local medical community's capacity to deliver care. The following is a summary of recommendations for preparing a Disaster Preparedness plan and delivery of EMCC, based on the most recent publications from the American College of Chest Physicians Task Force [2] and the Fundamentals of Disaster Management (FDM) [20] course of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, with emphasis in the Staff, Stuff, and Space orientation: Staff 1.	./cache/cord-017525-hvd7jv44.txt	./txt/cord-017525-hvd7jv44.txt