Mass-casualty, terrorist bombings: Implications for emergency department and hospital emergency response (Part II)

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 235-241

  Halpern, Pinchas ^a   Tsai, Ming Che ^b   Arnold, Jeffrey L ^c   Stok, Edita ^d   Ersoy, Gurkan ^e  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c YALE NEW HAVEN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^d MINISTRY OF CULTURE   (Slovenia)

^e DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

blast injury; bombing; capacity; disaster; disaster management; distribution, secondary; emergency; emergency department; emergency management; epidemiology; explosions; mass casualty incident; terrorism; terrorist bombing

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HUMAN; INJURY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; REVIEW; TERRORISM;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEALTH MANPOWER; HUMANS; PROTECTIVE DEVICES; TERRORISM; TRIAGE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 3042778754     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00001102     Document Type: Article

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