Primary triage, evacuation priorities, and rapid primary distribution between adjacent hospitals - Lessons learned from a suicide bomber attack in downtown tel-aviv

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 337-341

  Pinkert, Moshe ^a   Lehavi, Ofer ^b   Goren, Odeda Benin ^b   Raiter, Yaron ^a   Shamis, Ari ^c   Priel, Zvi ^d   Schwartz, Dagan ^f,g   Goldberg, Avishay ^f   Levi, Yehezkel ^e   Bar Dayan, Yaron ^a,f  

^a Home Front Command Medical Department   (Israel)

^b Sorasky Medical Center Tel Aviv   (Israel)

^c SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

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

^f BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^g MAGEN DAVID ADOM   (Israel)

Author keywords

distribution; evacuation; masscasualty incident; primary triage; priorities; terrorism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOMB; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL PLANNING; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MASS DISASTER; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SUICIDE; TERRORISM;

BOMBS; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL PLANNING; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; SUICIDE; TERRORISM; TRIAGE;

EID: 58149144240     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00005975     Document Type: Article

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