Mass Casualty Incidents
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Experience with mass casualties in a subcontinent earthquake.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: A massive earthquake struck North Pakistan on 8 October 2005. The objective of this study was to evaluate the types of injuries and the procedures carried out on the admitted casualties, and to present recommendations based on these ... Read more...

An academic medical center under prolonged rocket attack--organizational, medical, and financial considerations.

30 Aug 2009 The Rambam Medical Center, the major academic health center in northern Israel, serving a population of two million and providing specialized tertiary care, was exposed to an unprecedented experience during the Second Lebanon War in the summer of ... Read more...

SAGEC 67, a free-access database linking at least three countries, for finding spare beds in the event of a mass casualty incident.

30 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVES: To share hospital beds inside the European community. METHODS: Creation of a website, which can be consulted 24 h a day by physicians from European community. RESULTS: Since the creation of SAGEC 67, more than 300 physicians have found ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mass Casualty Incidents'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Mental illness and violence. 30 Aug 2009
• Experience with mass casualties in a subcontinent earthquake. 30 Aug 2009
• Redefining the mission: the Mercy Model as a leadership approach for public health systems and population-based programs. 30 Aug 2009
• USPHS Commissioned Corps: a global emergency preparedness and response asset. 30 Aug 2009
• An academic medical center under prolonged rocket attack--organizational, medical, and financial considerations. 30 Aug 2009
• Flight crash beyond medallion. 30 Aug 2009
• Enhancing hospital surge capacity for mass casualty events. 3 Aug 2009
• SAGEC 67, a free-access database linking at least three countries, for finding spare beds in the event of a mass casualty incident. 30 Jul 2009
• Cooperation versus competition in a mass emergency evacuation: a new laboratory simulation and a new theoretical model. 30 Jul 2009
• Pediatric and neonatal interfacility transport medicine after mass casualty incidents. 30 Jul 2009
• Pediatric prehospital medicine in mass casualty incidents. 30 Jul 2009
• Burn surge for Los Angeles County, California. 30 Jul 2009
• Trauma system: the backbone of disaster preparedness. 30 Jul 2009
• Surgical response to multiple casualty incidents following single explosive events. 30 Jul 2009
• Infection control in mass-casualty respiratory care: research needs and future directions. 29 Jun 2009
• Triage, rationing, and palliative care in disaster planning. 30 May 2009
• Palliative care considerations in mass casualty events with scarce resources. 30 May 2009
• [Primary care hospital for a mass disaster MANV IV. Experience from a mock disaster exercise] 30 May 2009
• [Overtriage must be avoided] 30 May 2009
• Review of hospital preparedness instruments for National Incident Management System compliance. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Mass Casualty Incidents'

Definition: Events that overwhelm the resources of local HOSPITALS and health care providers. They are likely to impose a sustained demand for HEALTH SERVICES rather than the short, intense peak customary with smaller scale disasters.

Descriptor UI: D054527

Alternative terms: Mass Casualty Incidents; Casualty Incident, Mass; Casualty Incidents, Mass; Incident, Mass Casualty; Incidents, Mass Casualty; Mass Casualty Incident; Mass Casualties; Casualties, Mass; Casualty, Mass; Mass Casualty;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; ethics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; mortality; prevention & control; psychology; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: I01.198.240.856.800.537; I01.880.735.900.800.575; N06.230.100.160;

History Note: 2008