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Hurricane Ida Emergency Medicine Resident Disaster Response

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2022

Ronald Fenton Open the ORCID record for Ronald Fenton [Opens in a new window] ,
Ben Flitter ,
Raymond Kessler ,
Kyle Herbert  and
Meghan Maslanka
Ronald Fenton*
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC), Emergency Medicine Resident (PGY-4), New Orleans, LouisianaUSA
Ben Flitter
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC), Emergency Medicine Resident (PGY-4), New Orleans, LouisianaUSA
Raymond Kessler
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC), Emergency Medicine Resident (PGY-4), New Orleans, LouisianaUSA
Kyle Herbert
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC), Emergency Medicine Resident (PGY-3), New Orleans, LouisianaUSA
Meghan Maslanka
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC), Emergency Medicine Attending, New Orleans, LouisianaUSA
*
Correspondence: Ronald Fenton, DO LSU Emergency Medicine 2000 Canal Street, D&T 2nd Floor Suite 2720 New Orleans, Louisiana70112USA E-mail: rfento@lsuhsc.edu; ronald.fenton.rf@gmail.com
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Abstract

This report describes the medical response, action plan, and after-action summary adopted by the Louisiana State University (LSU) New Orleans - Emergency Medicine (EM) Residency Program in response to Hurricane Ida which occurred in New Orleans, Louisiana (USA) late August through early September 2021. New Orleans has an estimated 385,000 people within the 350 square miles surrounding the metropolitan area, with greater than one million residents in all of Louisiana. In the two-week time span during and following the event, residents, nurses, attendings, ancillary staff, and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) managed a substantial intensification in daily EM activities due to a substantial lack of resources (ie, food, electricity, water, housing, medications, oxygen, and primary care). This report outlines the redistribution of emergency department (ED) residents within the primary clinical site, University Medical Center New Orleans (UMCNO); describes the daily communication flow from the chief residents and program director; describes the daily EM response; describes the pre- and post-action plans based on those efforts during hurricane operations; and summarizes the obtained information.

Keywords

disaster medicineemergency medicineHurricane IdaNew Orleans
Type
Field Report
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , August 2022 , pp. 558 - 560
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine

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