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Mass Casualtity Management In Disasters | |
File name | Mass Casualtity Management In Disasters |
File Description | Catastrophic disasters inevitably lead to large numbers of dead and injured in the immediate aftermath. This paper primarily reviews issues in regard to the management of mass casualties (focussing primarily on natural disasters) in the first days up to 2 weeks following the event. In regard to trauma management, international teams/field hospitals are unlikely to be deployed within the scope of one or two days so that those with life-threatening injuries requiring emergent surgical intervention will not have survived. This also applies to large scale urban search and rescue deployments that arrive many days after the incident. However, there is some utility in ensuring targeted clinical teams are deployed as soon as possible, with appropriate logistic infrastructure, configured on the basis of the known epidemiology of the disaster and the background national demographics/population health denominators |
Category Name | Public Health |
Subject Name | Disaster Management |
Module Name | Incident Response System Capabilities |
Micro Category Name | Field Mass Casuality Management |
Level | Masters |
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