Medical response of a physician and two nurses to the mass-casualty event resulting in the phi phi islands from the tsunami

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 212-214

  Ammartyothin, Surasak ^a   Ashkenasi, Issac ^b,c,d   Schwartz, Dagan ^b   Leiba, Adi ^b,d   Nakash, Guy ^d   Pelts, Rami ^d   Goldberg, Avishay ^b   Bar Dayan, Yaron ^b,d  

^a Phi Phi Island Hospital   (Thailand)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c Medical Corps   (Israel)

^d MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

Author keywords

evacuation; leadership; mass casualty event; nurse; preparedness; triage; tsunami

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; NURSE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN; THAILAND;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; NATURAL DISASTERS; NURSES; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; PHYSICIANS; RESCUE WORK; THAILAND;

EID: 33748109235     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00003691     Document Type: Article

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