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Emergency medicine's COVID future: Facing the triple challenge after flattening the curve
Author(s) -
Staib Andrew,
Small Niall
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
emergency medicine australasia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.602
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1742-6723
pISSN - 1742-6731
DOI - 10.1111/1742-6723.13566
Subject(s) - medicine , covid-19 , dimension (graph theory) , face (sociological concept) , quality (philosophy) , medical emergency , virology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , social science , philosophy , mathematics , disease , epistemology , pathology , sociology , pure mathematics
After successfully avoiding the situations experienced by some countries, Australasian EDs now face a future in which the ongoing threat of COVID‐19 is added to the traditional challenges in providing quality emergency care. The contribution of emergency medicine to the national containment strategy adds a new dimension to the demands placed on emergency medicine in Australia and similarly, to the elimination strategy employed in New Zealand. These demands will best be met by a considered, planned and resourced approach that will challenge traditional measures of ‘ED efficiency’.