Triage and air evacuation strategy for mass casualty events: A model based on combat experience

Military Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 647-651

  Ran, Yuval ^a   Hadad, Eran ^a   Daher, Saleh ^b   Ganor, Ori ^b   Yegorov, Yana ^b   Katzenell, Udi ^b   Ash, Nachman ^b   Hirschhorn, Gil ^c  

^a Israel Defence Force ^*  (Israel)

^b Trauma Branch   (Israel)

^c Israel Air Force   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; ISRAEL; MASS DISASTER; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; SOLDIER; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WAR;

HOSPITALS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TRIAGE; WAR;

EID: 80051615373     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-10-00390     Document Type: Article

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