Coping with war mass casualties in a hospital under fire: The radiology experience

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 193, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1212-1221

  Engel, Ahuva ^a,b   Soudack, Michalle ^a,b   Ofer, Amos ^a   Nitecki, Samy S ^a,b   Ghersin, Eduard ^a   Fischer, Doron ^a   Gaitini, Diana E ^a,b  

^a Rambam Health Care Center   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Emergency radiology; Focused abdominal sonography for trauma; Multiple casualty incidents; Trauma; Triage

Indexed keywords

ARMY; BATTLE INJURY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FIRE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; JOB PERFORMANCE; NURSE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT; REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISASTER PLANNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LEBANON; MALE; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; TRIAGE; WAR;

EID: 70449504051     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.2375     Document Type: Review

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