Mass casualty incident management, triage, injury distribution of casualties and rate of arrival of casualties at the hospitals: Lessons from a suicide bomber attack in downtown Tel Aviv

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 225-229

  Raiter, Y ^a   Farfel, A ^a   Lehavi, O ^b   Goren, O B ^b   Shamiss, A ^c   Priel, Z ^d   Koren, I ^e   Davidson, B ^f   Schwartz, D ^g,h   Goldberg, A ^h   Bar Dayan, Y ^a,h  

^a Home Front Command Medical Department   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^f ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^g MAGEN DAVID ADOM   (Israel)

^h BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ANXIETY; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EXPLOSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY SEVERITY; ISRAEL; LEG INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIZATION; TERRORISM; TINNITUS;

AMBULANCES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; RESCUE WORK; TIME FACTORS; TRIAGE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 41849115227     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2007.052399     Document Type: Article

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