Medical responses following the sendai quake (East Japan earthquake, March 11, 2011)

Artificial Organs

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 760-763

  Yambe, Tomoyuki ^a   Shibata, Muneichi ^b   Sumiyoshi, Taketada ^b   Mibiki, Yoshiaki ^b   Osawa, Noboru ^b   Katahira, Yoshiaki ^c   Yambe, Minoru ^c   Tabayashi, Kou Ichi ^c   Yamashina, Masanori ^d   Sato, Eiji ^d   Sato, Shinichi ^d   Yagi, Tetsuo ^d   Watanabe, Makoto ^e   Akinno, Yoshihira ^e   Munakata, Masanori ^f   Owada, Naoki ^g   Akiyama, Masatoshi ^a   Saiki, Yoshikatsu ^a   Sugita, Norihiro ^a   Yoshizawa, Makoto ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Miyagi Cardiovascular Respiratory Center   (Japan)

^c Tohoku Kousei Nenkin Hospital   (Japan)

^d SENDAI CITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e Miyagi Shakaihoken Hospital   (Japan)

^f TOHOKU ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^g Miyagi Cancer Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKES;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL ORGAN; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; ELECTRONIC DOCTOR'S BAG; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEMEDICINE; TSUNAMI;

EID: 84864796927     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2012.01522.x     Document Type: Article

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