This permits medical personnel in the austere location to focus resources on a larger number of less critical patients.
Portable ultrasound is proving to be a valuable tool for the use in austere and post-disaster environments where resources for advanced imaging are limited [1, 2].
"As soon as the first person got sick, we quarantined them as best we could in these very austere conditions with the very limited resources at our disposal," Elisabeth Gundersen, a volunteer registered nurse, told HuffPost.
An unlimited salad buffet would have been appropriate: nutritionally austere, and yet suspiciously unending in its resources.
It may not be a coincidence that a number of Africa's economies doing the best without many resources — like Ethiopia or Rwanda — have austere, orderly, patriotic, aid-efficient governments that simultaneously spurn charity aid and focus on foreign-direct investment and private enterprise.
Transport of unstable patients away from an austere location relieves a load on the local resources.
There are a multitude of resources that are available to us, much less austere and elusive than our conventional thought processes can fathom.
Mr Osborne can find most of this in his budget on March 20th by shifting resources from less productive parts of Leviathan: for all the austere talk, state spending in 2011-12 was £300 billion more than in 2001-02.
Agency funding is cyclical, often unpredictable, and subject to sudden cuts in response to broader state and Federal budget crises and varying public support; as a result, the resources to support system-wide practice change can range from austere to uncertain at best.
"As we consider how to continue to fund outstanding biomedical research during austere times, we are weighing various options, including looking closely at the way we manage NIH resources," she writes.
