Alan D Kaye, Elyse M Cornett, Anusha Kallurkar, Matthew M Colontonio, Debbie Chandler, Chizoba Mosieri, Kimberley C Brondeel, Sathyadev Kikkeri, Amber Edinoff, Mary Jo Fitz-Gerald, G E Ghali, Henry Liu, Richard D Urman, Charles J Fox
The Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) is an incident management system specific to hospitals based on the principles of Incident Command System (ICS), and it includes prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery. It plays a crucial role in effective and timely response during the periods of disasters, mass casualties, and public health emergencies. In recent times, hospitals have used a customized HICS structure to coordinate effective responses to public health problems such as the Ebola outbreak in the US and SARS epidemic in Taiwan...
October 2021: Best Practice & Research. Clinical Anaesthesiology