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This chapter outlines an all-hazards approach to protecting and expanding definitive-care areas such as operating room and critical care resources during rapidly evolving disasters such as explosions or earthquakes resulting in a large number of casualties. Understanding the recurring patterns of disasters and the typical pitfalls in response allows early anticipation of casualty numbers, injury patterns, required resources, and the time course. Further, an appreciation of dead:injured ratios, triage principles, surge capacity, and the consequences of overtriage to critical mortality enables care providers to optimize outcomes.

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Roccaforte, J.D. (2014). Disaster Preparedness. In: Scher, C. (eds) Anesthesia for Trauma. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0909-4_22

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