Distribution of casualties in a mass-casualty incident with three local hospitals in the periphery of a densely populated area: Lessons learned from the medical management of a terrorist attack

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 186-192

  Bloch, Yuval H ^a,g   Schwartz, Dagan ^b,g   Pinkert, Moshe ^a   Blumenfeld, Amir ^c   Avinoam, Shkolnick ^d   Hevion, Giora ^e   Oren, Meir ^f   Goldberg, Avishay ^g   Levi, Yehezkel ^c   Bar Dayan, Yaron ^a,g  

^a Home Front Command Medical Department   (Israel)

^b MAGEN DAVID ADOM   (Israel)

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

^d LANIADO HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^e MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^f HILLEL YAFFE MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^g BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

close circle hospital; early terrorism; emergency medical services; immediate circle hospital; mass casualty incident (MCI); mild casualties; suicide bombing

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; BLAST INJURY; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EXPLOSION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; TERRORISM; TIME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AMBULANCES; BLAST INJURIES; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EXPLOSIONS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; RESCUE WORK; SUBURBAN HEALTH SERVICES; TERRORISM; TIME FACTORS; TRIAGE;

EID: 35748940311     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00004635     Document Type: Article

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