Disaster metrics: Quantitative estimation of the number of ambulances required in trauma-related multiple casualty events

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 445-451

  Bayram, J D ^a   Zuabi, S ^b   El Sayed, M J ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center   (United States)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

disaster; disaster metrics; disaster response; emergency medical services; Keywords ambulance; multiple casualty event

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MASS DISASTER; METHODOLOGY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURGE CAPACITY; TIME; UNITED STATES;

AMBULANCES; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; SURGE CAPACITY; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870012473     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X12001094     Document Type: Article

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