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Time to Reconsider Analgesia in Mass Casualty Incidents
Wilderness & Environmental Medicine, 2023 The provision of analgesia in mass casualty incidents has traditionally been viewed as low-priority and reserved for later stages of care. Poor pain management is commonplace in trauma victims, and inadequate acute pain management can hinder evacuation efforts and may lead to the development of chronic pain and posttraumatic stress disorder. New, safe,
De Valence De Minardiere, Timothee +1 more
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Challenge Patient Dispatching in Mass Casualty Incidents [PDF]
, 2012 Efficient management of mass casualty incidents is complex, since regular emergency medical services struc-tures have to be switched to a temporary "disaster mode" involving additional operational and tactical struc-tures. Most of the relevant decisions have to be taken on-site in a provisional and chaotic environment.
Donner, Anton +2 more
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BMC Public Health, 2021 Background Effective preparedness to respond to mass casualty incidents and disasters requires a well-planned and integrated effort by all involved professionals, particularly those who are working in healthcare, who are equipped with unique knowledge ...
Krzysztof Goniewicz +7 more
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Pre-hospital preparedness for pediatric mass casualty incidents in Riyadh
Saudi Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2021 Background:The percentage of affected children in mass casualty incidents (MCIs) in Saudi Arabia is high (39.1%). Thereby, this study aimed to assess the level of preparedness, preparedness plans, and the knowledge of pre-hospital workers related to ...
Faris Saad Almutairi +3 more
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Current developments in biodosimetry tools for radiological/nuclear mass casualty incidents
Environmental Advances, 2022 Radiological /nuclear (R/N) mass casualty incidents can potentially expose several hundreds and thousands of humans to substantial doses of ionizing radiation (IR).
Maria B. Escalona +2 more
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Prehospital care of injured patients in a mass casualty incidents [PDF]
ABC: časopis urgentne medicine, 2023 Mass accidents do not happen often, but when they do, they cause a significant disruption in the functioning of a society with a large number of casualties and an increased percentage of deaths among the injured. The aim of the work is to present the way
Jokšić-Mazinjanin Radojka +3 more
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Prioritized criteria for casualty distribution following trauma-related mass casualty incidents
Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2020 Introduction In the aftermath of mass casualty incidents, many resolutions need to be made in a fast and influential manner within high pressure environment to assign the limited resources among the numerous demands.
Mohammad Reza Khajehaminian +5 more
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A need for prehospital triage standardizing tool in mass casualty incidents
Health Problems of Civilization, 2021 There is no global consensus on the use of prehospital triage systems in mass casualty incidents [1,2]. However, most of the triage systems aim to cover four essential factors: speed, precision, fairness, and compatibility [3], of which the element of ...
Amir Khorram-Manesh +5 more
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The Strategy of Medical Rescue for Mass Casualty Incidents [PDF]
, 2021 Mass casualty incidents refer to the medical resources required in the rescue of casualties, which obviously exceed existing local medical resources in a relatively short period.
Wang, Heng
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Zhongguo gonggong weisheng, 2022 The research on medical surge capacity and capability of medical institutions is a supplement to the research on the planning, mitigation, and response of the medical system in response to mass casualty incidents and of far-reaching policy significance ...
Jin QIAO, Ning NING, Zi-hua ZHAO
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