Prehospital response and field triage in pediatric mass casualty incidents: The Israeli experience

Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 52-58

  Waisman, Yehezkel ^a,b   Amir, Lisa ^a,b   Mor, Meirav ^a,b   Feigenberg, Zvi ^c   Aharonson, Limor Daniel ^b,d   Peleg, Kobi ^b,d   Blumenfeld, Amir ^e  

^a SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c MAGEN DAVID ADOM   (Israel)

^d GERTNER INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH   (Israel)

^e MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

Author keywords

Children; Disaster medicine; Disaster planning organization administration; Emergency medical services; Emergency medicine; Injury; Pediatric; Terror; Trauma; Triage

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANATOMY; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILDHOOD INJURY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EXPERIENCE; FIELD WORK; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HISTORY; HUMAN; ISRAEL; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TERRORISM; VIOLENCE;

EID: 33644984870     PISSN: 15228401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpem.2006.01.006     Document Type: Article

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