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Order in chaos: modelling medical management in disasters.
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Modelling of medical disaster management is important not only in the preparedness phase, but also during the disaster itself and its evaluation, which may in turn result in a decrease in mortality, morbidity and disability amongst disaster casualties.Abstract:
The medical aspects of disaster management, also referred to as disaster medicine, is a relatively new medical specialty, the roots of which are to be found in war surgery and traumatology. The main content of disaster medicine is based on empiricism. During the past couple of years, a mathematicalread more
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Surge Capacity Principles: Care of the Critically Ill and Injured During Pandemics and Disasters: CHEST Consensus Statement
John L. Hick,Sharon Einav,Dan Hanfling,Dan Hanfling,Niranjan Kissoon,Jeffrey R. Dichter,Asha V. Devereaux,Michael D. Christian +7 more
TL;DR: The suggestions in this article are important for all who are involved in large-scale disasters or pandemics with injured or critically ill multiple patients, including front-line clinicians, hospital administrators, and public health or government officials.
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How does casualty load affect trauma care in urban bombing incidents? A quantitative analysis.
Asher Hirshberg,Bradford G. Scott,Thomas S. Granchi,Matthew J. Wall,Kenneth L. Mattox,Michael D. Stein +5 more
TL;DR: This model defines the quantitative relationship between an increasing casualty load and gradual degradation of the level of trauma care in multiple casualty incidents, and defines the surge capacity of the hospital trauma assets as a rate of casualty arrival rather than a number of beds.
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Worldwide disaster medical response: an historical perspective.
TL;DR: A brief review of significant milestones in the history of disaster medicine with emphasis on applicability to present and future structures for disaster medical response and a new response model may be needed to address the threats of bioterrorism.
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Disaster metrics: quantitative benchmarking of hospital surge capacity in trauma-related multiple casualty events.
TL;DR: Defining and quantitatively benchmarking the different components of hospital surge capacity is vital to hospital preparedness in MCE.
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Triage and trauma workload in mass casualty: a computer model
TL;DR: This study introduces innovative tools for quantitative analysis of hospital triage in mass casualty incidents and shows how triage accuracy and mode affect the ability of trauma teams to cope with heavy casualty loads.
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The medical severity index of disasters
TL;DR: A calculation of the hospital treatment capacity in the region could serve as a guideline for estimation of the dimensions needed for the medical rescue capacity and medical transport capacity when planning how to deal with a disaster.