Revisiting blood transfusion preparedness: Experience from the bam earthquake response

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 391-394

  Abolghasemi, Hassan ^a   Radfar, Mohammad H ^a,b,c   Tabatabaee, Morteza ^a   Hosseini Divkolayee, Nasim S ^a   Burkle, Frederick M ^d  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

blood transfusions; disaster management; disaster planning; earthquakes; natural disasters

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DISASTER PLANNING; EARTHQUAKE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; IRAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RELIEF WORK;

BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISASTER PLANNING; EARTHQUAKES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HEALTH PLANNING; HUMANS; IRAN; RELIEF WORK; TRIAGE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 61449090469     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00006117     Document Type: Article

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