No matter where you practice emergency medicine there will be, or has been, capacity problems in the COVID-19 crisis. Even if we “flatten the COVID-19 curve” there will be a load on the systems that exceeds our capacity.

Dr. Daniel Kollek, emergency physician, chair of the CAEP Disaster Medicine committee and Director of the Centre for Excellence in Emergency Preparedness, answers questions such as: what are the 4 pillars of increasing surge capacity?

What are the common pitfalls of alternate care spaces? How can we best manage the degradation of care we provide for our non-COVID patients? How should we use the ED space and beyond to increase surge capacity while keeping our staff safe? and many more.

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