Disaster and Emergency Resources

The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) monitors current events and regularly activates its emergency response plan. The plan includes releasing complimentary education and resources to help clinicians treat critically ill and injured patients, respond to patient surges, and implement resource allocation strategies.  Materials are specific to the emergency at hand, including hurricanes, earthquakes, terrorist attacks, and other man-made or natural disasters. 

COVID-19 Response

Resources for healthcare professionals responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.  Find All COVID-19 Response Activities

Emergency Response Resources

• Disasters Produced By Natural Phenomena
• Critical Care for Non-ICU Clinicians provides training in the fundamentals of initial assessment, airway management, mechanical ventilation, and other key topics. The training was developed in response to COIVD-19, but can help you prepare for any patient surge.
• Preparing Your ICU For Disaster Response: A free guidebook to assess your ICU readiness, deploy communications plans, build ICU surge capacity, understand ethical decision making, and much more.
• Guidance on triage and resource allocation can help create a framework for managing difficult decisions if resources become scarce