Intensive Care Unit Capacity, Cancellation of Elective Surgery, and the US Pandemic Response

Michael Nurok¹, Jeremy M Kahn^{2

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Affiliations

¹ From the Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
² Departments of Critical Care Medicine and.
³ Health Policy & Management, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Michael Nurok et al. Anesth Analg. 2020 Nov.

. 2020 Nov;131(5):1334-1336.

doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000005170.

Michael Nurok¹, Jeremy M Kahn^{2

3}

¹ From the Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
² Departments of Critical Care Medicine and.
³ Health Policy & Management, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Cancellation of Elective Surgery and Intensive Care Unit Capacity in New York State: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis.
Poeran J, Zhong H, Wilson L, Liu J, Memtsoudis SG. Poeran J, et al. Anesth Analg. 2020 Nov;131(5):1337-1341. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000005083. Anesth Analg. 2020. PMID: 33079852 Free PMC article.

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