2010•Infection Control and Hospital EpidemiologyRequires access
Hospital Capacity during an Influenza Pandemic—Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2009
Elissa Meites, Daniel Rodrigues de Farias, Lucrecia Raffo, Rachel Albalak, Oreste Luis Carlino, L. Clifford McDonald, Marc‐Alain Widdowson
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Abstract
At a major referral hospital in the Southern Hemisphere, the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) pandemic brought increased critical care demand and more unscheduled nursing absences. Because of careful preparedness planning, including rapid expansion and redistribution of the numbers of available beds and staff, hospital surge capacity was not exceeded.