Lessons learned from cross-border medical response to the terrorist bombings in tabba and ras-el-satan, Egypt, on 07 october 2004

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 253-257

  Leiba, Adi ^a   Blumenfeld, Amir ^a   Hourvitz, Ariel ^a   Weiss, Gali ^a   Peres, Michal ^a   Laor, Dani ^b   Schwartz, Dagan ^c,e   Arad, Jacob ^d   Goldberg, Avishay ^c   Levi, Yeheskel ^a   Bar Dayan, Yaron ^a  

^a MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d Clalit Health Services   (Israel)

^e MAGEN DAVID ADOM   (Israel)

Author keywords

border; Egypt; evacuation hospital; international terror; Israel; mass casualty incident (MCI); Tabba

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLAST INJURY; EGYPT; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ISRAEL; LEARNING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; TERRORISM;

BLAST INJURIES; EGYPT; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ISRAEL; LEARNING; TERRORISM;

EID: 25444484093     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00002624     Document Type: Conference Paper

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