Pitfalls to avoid in the medical management of mass casualty incidents following terrorist bombings: the hospital perspective.

There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

Abstract

The unique patterns of injury following explosions together with the involvement of numerous physicians, most of whom are not experienced in trauma, may create problems in the medical management of mass casualty incidents.

Related collections

Author and article information

Journal

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg

Title: European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society

Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC

ISSN (Electronic): 1863-9941

ISSN (Print): 1863-9933

Publication date (Electronic): Aug 2014

Volume: 40

Issue: 4

Affiliations

[1 ] Surgery Department, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, P.O.Box 169, 38100, Hadera, Israel. i_ashkenazi@yahoo.com.

[2 ] Emergency Surgery Department, Gregorio Marañon Medical Center, Madrid, Spain.

[3 ] Intensive Care Unit, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.

[4 ] Trauma Unit, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, Israel.

[5 ] Surgery Department, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, P.O.Box 169, 38100, Hadera, Israel.

[6 ] Department of Surgery, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.

Article

Publisher Item ID: 10.1007/s00068-014-0403-x

DOI: 10.1007/s00068-014-0403-x

PubMed ID: 26816239

SO-VID: 87d59b25-c145-4dfb-96af-70a6f2a846a7

History

Keywords: Terror bombings,Mass casualty incidents

Data availability:

Keywords: Terror bombings, Mass casualty incidents

Comments

Comment on this article

scite_

Cited by 2

See all cited by