Analysis of the pre-incident education and subsequent performance of emergency medical responders to the Volendam café fire

European Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 265-269

  Welling, Lieke ^a   Perez, Roberto S G M ^a   van Harten, Sabine M ^a   Patka, Peter ^a   Mackie, Dave P ^b   Kreis, Robert W ^b   Bierens, Joost J L M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accident; Disaster planning; Disasters; Emergency medicine; Fires; Public health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FIRE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; METHODOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RESCUE PERSONNEL; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; FIRES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; NETHERLANDS; RESCUE WORK; TRIAGE;

EID: 33644805625     PISSN: 09699546     EISSN: 14735695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00063110-200512000-00003     Document Type: Article

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