Triage, Surge Capacity, and Epidemic Emergency Unit: An experience from the 2019 dengue outbreak at a Tertiary Care Centre

Journal of Nepal Medical Association

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Ashis Shrestha¹  Sumana Bajracharya¹  Darlene Rose House² 

[1] Department of General Practice and Emergency Medicine, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Lagankhel, Nepal;Department of Paediatric Emergency, Indiana University

关键词: dengue;    epidemics;    surge capacity;    triage.;   

DOI  :  10.31729/jnma.4771

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Nepal Medical Association since

【 摘 要 】

In September 2019, a dengue outbreak was observed in many non-endemic areas of Nepal. Theemergency department of Patan Academy of Health Sciences also received febrile patients exceedingusual daily numbers. This surge of the patient was managed by epidemic triage and activation ofsurge capacity. A part of the surge plan was to activate an epidemic emergency unit. An observationward adjacent to the emergency was used for the epidemic emergency unit. The febrile patients whowere triaged yellow and green were treated in this unit. The patients who were triaged as Red weretreated in the emergency department.

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