A medical disaster reponse to reduce immediate mortality after an earthquake

Article Abstract:

Timely organized response to victims requiring prompt medical care is crucial after earthquakes. Details of emergency medicine in the event of a major urban earthquake include an operations plan and a previous training course for health care professionals. Physicians can immediately tend to injured people around them, using supplies from a medical backpack they keep in their cars at all times. Further medical attention would be available in disaster-medical-aid centers and finally at casualty-collection points, such as golf courses and shopping malls. Spaced 10 miles apart, these sites would allow for helicopter and ambulance transfer. Medical personnel would be trained in mass-casualty triage, airway management, use of intravenous fluids, pain relief, crush-injury treatment, and knowledge of amputation. A government official would be in charge of coordinating the whole effort.

Care and treatment, Planning, Training, Medical personnel, Medical personnel training, Emergency management, Emergency preparedness, Disaster victims, Triage (Medicine)

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International aeromedical evacuation

Article Abstract:

The rapid expansion of the international aeromedical evacuation industry can be attributed to two modern trends, namely, increased travel to regions where road trauma and infectious diseases are prevalent but dependable medical care is unavailable, and a rise in the number of travelers who are predisposed to injury or illness due to advancing age or underlying medical conditions. A discussion on aeromedical evacuation includes information on the logistics of aeromedicine as well as its benefits and drawbacks.

United States, General services, Management dynamics, Management, Safety and security measures, Air travel, Company business management

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Implications of hospital evacuation after the Northridge, California, earthquake

Article Abstract:

Eight of the 91 hospitals in Los Angeles County had to evacuate one or more patients after the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake. Most used existing resources and personnel to do this. None of the evacuated patients died as a result of the evacuation. This shows that many hospitals could evacuate patients safely in the event of a natural disaster or terrorist attack.

California, Goods & services distribution, Transportation, Hospital patients, Northridge, California, Earthquake, 1994

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