Disaster medicine and public health preparednessHumansCOVID-19Civil DefenseDisaster PlanningOxygen
Facility Preparedness for Biological Emergencies: Lessons from AUBMC's Oxygen System Overhaul.
Mazen El-Baba, Abdo Mghames, Rana Saleh, George Khoury, Walid Shaib, Rima Jabbour, Eveline Antoine Hitti
Published: 202510.1017/dmp.2025.10238
Abstract
Biological emergencies strain health care facilities that are typically designed to accommodate routine surges. The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic exposed vulnerabilities in hospital oxygen delivery systems worldwide, resulting in ventilator failures and disrup…
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