Impact of a predefined hospital mass casualty response plan in a limited resource setting with no pre-hospital care system

Injury

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 156-161

  Shah, Adil Aijaz ^a   Rehman, Abdul ^b   Sayyed, Raza Hasnain ^b   Haider, Adil Hussain ^c   Bawa, Amber ^b   Zafar, Syed Nabeel ^a   Zia Ur Rehman, ^b   Ali, Kamran ^b   Zafar, Hasnain ^b  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

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

Author keywords

Developing country; Disaster plan; Disaster response; Low middle income country; Mass casualty event; Resource limited; Terrorism; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLAST INJURY; BLOOD BANK; CHILD; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISASTER MEDICINE; DISASTER PLANNING; DISASTER VICTIM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; LIMB INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS DISASTER; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MORTALITY; NORTH AMERICAN; OPERATING ROOM; ORTHOPEDIC SPECIALIST; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PULSE RATE; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH ASIA; SURVIVAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; TRAUMATOLOGY; WAITING ROOM; BLAST INJURIES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXPLOSION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PAKISTAN; PATIENT TRANSPORT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TERRORISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLAST INJURIES; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EXPLOSIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; PAKISTAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERRORISM; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TRIAGE;

EID: 84919598742     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2014.08.029     Document Type: Article

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