Strategies in evaluation and management of bam earthquake victims

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 327-330

  Emami, Mohammad J ^a   Tavakoli, Ali R ^a   Alemzadeh, Hossein ^a   Abdinejad, Farzad ^a   Shahcheraghi, Gholamhossain ^a   Erfani, Mohammad A ^a   Mozafarian, Kamran ^a   Solooki, Saeed ^a   Rezazadeh, Sorena ^a   Ensafdaran, Ahmad ^a   Nouraie, Hormoz ^a   Jaberi, Feriedoon M ^a   Sharifian, Maryam ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bam; catastrophe; disaster preparedness; earthquake; emergency medical services; mass casualties; medical disaster response; multi casualty incidents; trauma care

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY; IRAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; INFANT; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NATURAL DISASTERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TRIAGE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33644838551     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X0000279X     Document Type: Article

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