Case study of the terrorist bombing in Tel Aviv market – putting all the eggs in one basket might save lives

International Journal of Disaster Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 157-160

  Leiba, Adi ^a   Halpern, Pinchas ^b   Kotler, Doron ^c   Blumenfeld, Amir ^d   Soffer, Dror ^b   Weiss, Gali ^a   Peres, Michal ^a   Laor, Dani ^e   Levi, Yeheskel ^d   Goldberg, Avishay ^f   Bar‐Dayan, Yaron ^a  

^a Home Front Command Medical Department   (United States)

^b Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center   (United States)

^c Israeli National EMS (Red Shield of David)   (Israel)

^d MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^e MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^f BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

EMS; evacuation; multiple casualty incident; suicide bombing; triage

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746095930     PISSN: 15031438     EISSN: 16513037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15031430510034686     Document Type: Article

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