Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Christine Gall, DrPH, about the article, “Pediatric Triage in a Severe Pandemic: Maximizing Survival by Establishing Triage Thresholds,” published in the September 2016 issue of Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Gall is a System Director for Performance Improvement in Patient Experience for SCL Health, a nine hospital system based in Denver, Colorado. In this article, Dr. Gall and coauthors explore the topic of how to achieve optimal population survival during a mass casualty pandemic that overwhelms pediatric critical care resources despite surge capacity efforts.
