Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

Case Study Review
Take Home Points!
  • The hospital’s disaster response plan was able to be applied to a non-bioterrorism event.
  • Focusing resources and patients to one hospital (without the normal patient flow) assisted in the containment of SARS.
  • The ED was able to effectively screen, treat, and discharge patients with the use of a screening questionnaire and admission criteria.[11]