Consensus on items and quantities of clinical equipment required to deal with a mass casualties big bang incident: A national Delphi study

BMC Emergency Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Duncan, Edward A S ^a   Colver, Keith ^b   Dougall, Nadine ^a   Swingler, Kevin ^a   Stephenson, John ^c   Abhyankar, Purva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH AMBULANCE SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

^c National Ambulance Resilience Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ambulance; Big bang; Clinical equipment; Delphi method; Internet; Major incident; Mass casualties; Paramedic

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CIRCULATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSENSUS; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DELPHI STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; EXPERIENCE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LIKERT SCALE; MASS DISASTER; MEDICAL DEVICE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; RESPONSIBILITY; UNITED KINGDOM;

CONSENSUS; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; EXPLOSIONS; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; SURGE CAPACITY;

EID: 84896859140     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471227X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-227X-14-5     Document Type: Article

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