Major incident hospital: Development of a permanent facility for management of incident casualties

European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 203-211

  Bemelman, Michael ^a   Marres, Geertruid ^b   Van Der Eijk, John ^b   Leenen, Luke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Disaster medicine; Disaster preparedness; Dormant hospital; Infrastructure; Major incident; Registration

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650924200     PISSN: 18639933     EISSN: 16153146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00068-009-8230-1     Document Type: Article

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