Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

Case Study
  • A study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine (Oct. 8, 2003), conducted by Kum-Ying Tham, MBBS, FRCSed, examined the application of an emergency department’s disaster response plan in a hospital in Singapore.
  • The hospital became the central location for any and all SARS patients only; allowing hospital resources to be devoted to SARS patients.[11]