Site management of health issues in the 2001 World Trade Center disaster

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 650-660

  Bradt, David A ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Disaster; Disaster management; Disaster medical assistance teams; Emergency operations center; Epidemiology; Geographic information systems; Hazards; Incident command; Morbidity; Mortality; Prevention; Surveillance; Urban search and rescue; World Trade Center

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; DISASTER; EMERGENCY; EYE INJURY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEADACHE; HEALTH HAZARD; HOME CARE; HUMAN; LUNG INJURY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESCUE PERSONNEL; REVIEW; TECHNOLOGY; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; VICTIM;

EID: 0038121119     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2003.tb00051.x     Document Type: Review

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