Significance of a level-2,"Selective, secondary evacuation" hospital during a peripheral town terrorist attack

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 59-66

  Schwartz, Dagan ^a,e   Pinkert, Moshe ^b   Leiba, Adi ^b   Oren, Meir ^d   Haspel, Jacob ^d   Levi, Yehezkel ^c   Goldberg, Avishay ^e   Bar Dayan, Yaron ^b,e  

^a MAGEN DAVID ADOM   (Israel)

^b Home Front Command Medical Department   (Israel)

^c Israeli Defense Force Medical Corps Surg General Headquarters   (Israel)

^d HILLEL YAFFE MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

emergency medical services; evacuation hospital; mass casualty incident; secondary distribution; selective secondary evacuation; terrorism

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DISASTER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EXPLOSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STANDARD; TERRORISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EXPLOSIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESCUE WORK; TERRORISM; TRIAGE;

EID: 34250210552     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00004350     Document Type: Article

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