Hospital response to a major freeway bridge collapse

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 2, Issue SUPPL.1, 2008, Pages

  Hick, John L ^a   Chipman, Jeffery ^a   Loppnow, Gregory ^a   Conterato, Marc ^a   Roberts, David ^a   Heegaard, William G ^a   Beilman, Greg ^a   Clark, Michael ^a   Pohland, Jonathan ^a   Ho, Jeffrey D ^a   Brunette, Douglas D ^a   Clinton, Joseph E ^b  

^a Department of Emergency Medicine ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Hospital preparedness; Mass casualty incident; Surge capacity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAR; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILES; DISASTER PLANNING; DISASTERS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; TRIAGE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 55949117882     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 193844X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DMP.0b013e31817196bf     Document Type: Article

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