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Defining the problem, main objective, and strategies of medical management in mass-casualty incidents caused by terrorist events
- Source :
- Prehospital and disaster medicine. 23(1)
- Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- Based on the experience of managing >20 such events during the last decade, the authors' understanding of a mass-casualty incident is that it is an event in which there may be many victims, but only a few that actually suffer from life-threatening injuries. To make an impact on survival, one must identify those who are severely wounded as quickly as possible and offer those patients opti-mal care. Experienced trauma physicians are the most important resource available to achieve this objective, and they should be allocated to the treat-ment of seriously injured victims instead of more traditional management roles such as triage and incident manager.
- Subjects :
- business.industry
Human factors and ergonomics
Poison control
Disaster Planning
Emergency Nursing
medicine.disease
Suicide prevention
Triage
Occupational safety and health
Blast injury
Disasters
Mass-casualty incident
Injury prevention
Emergency Medicine
medicine
Humans
Mass Casualty Incidents
Terrorism
Medical emergency
Public Health
Israel
business
Emergency Service, Hospital
Retrospective Studies
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1049023X
- Volume :
- 23
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Prehospital and disaster medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5bf6bc57f6c31498068c0659350bcba0