Managing mild casualties in mass-casualty incidents: Lessons learned from an aborted terrorist attack

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 181-185

  Bloch, Yuval H ^a,c   Leiba, Adi ^b   Veaacnin, Nurit ^c   Paizer, Yohanan ^c   Schwartz, Dagan ^a,d   Kraskas, Ahuva ^b   Weiss, Gali ^b   Goldberg, Avishay ^a   Bar Dayan, Yaron ^a,b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d MAGEN DAVID ADOM   (Israel)

Author keywords

early phase admission; emergency medical services; mass casualty incidents; mild casualties; second phase admission; suicide bombing; terrorism

Indexed keywords

EXPLOSIVE;

ARTICLE; BLAST INJURY; CLASSIFICATION; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EXPLOSION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; ISRAEL; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TERRORISM; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

BLAST INJURIES; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EXPLOSIONS; EXPLOSIVE AGENTS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TERRORISM; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TRIAGE;

EID: 35748942906     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00004623     Document Type: Article

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