Emergency department visits for home medical device failure during the 2003 North America blackout

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 786-789

  Greenwald, Peter W ^a,b   Rutherford, Anne F ^a   Green, Robert A ^a   Giglio, James ^a  

^a Columbia Univ Coll Phys Surgs ^*  (United States)

^b NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

disaster planning; emergencies; emergency service; equipment failure; hospital; power sources

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MALE; NORTH AMERICA; POWER SUPPLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; TREATMENT FAILURE; VENTILATOR;

EID: 3042836165     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2003.12.032     Document Type: Article

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