Observations from the emergency management of dialysis patients evacuated from the US Virgin Islands to Puerto Rico following hurricane Irma

• Main Authors: Guillermo J. Avilés Mendoza (Author), Kristen P. Finne (Author), Francisco Torre Leon (Author), Lisandro Montalvo Burke (Author), Jessica Cabrera-Marquez (Author), Ana M. Mercado Casillas (Author), Grasiela Malave (Author), Christopher Brown (Author), Jeffrey Kelman (Author), Jeffrey B. Kopp (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Two category 5 hurricanes, Irma and Maria, arrived in the Caribbean in September 2017 in rapid succession. On September 6, Irma devastated the islands of St. Thomas and St. John, in the Virgin Islands of the United States (USVI). Most medical infrastructure was damaged, including hemodialys...