Clinical review Mass casualty triage – pandemic influenza and critical care.docVIP

Available online /content/11/2/212 Review Clinical review: Mass casualty triage – pandemic influenza and critical care Kirsty Challen, Andrew Bentley, John Bright and Darren Walter University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK Corresponding author: Kirsty Challen, kirsty.challen@smtr.nhs.uk Published: 30 April 2007 Critical Care 2007, 11:212 (doi:10.1186/cc5732) This article is online at /content/11/2/212 ? 2007 BioMed Central Ltd Abstract hospitalisation and 65,000 (7.5%) will require ventilation. They also outline a “severe” 1918-like scena