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Mass Casualty Planning: Model for In-Hospital Disaster Response

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Michael Cowan ,
Alexander M. Butman  and
Leo V. Bosner
Michael Cowan
Affiliation:
Uniformed Services University of the Health Services, Bethesda, Maryland, Emergency Medical Institute, Akron, Ohio, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
Alexander M. Butman
Affiliation:
Uniformed Services University of the Health Services, Bethesda, Maryland, Emergency Medical Institute, Akron, Ohio, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
Leo V. Bosner
Affiliation:
Uniformed Services University of the Health Services, Bethesda, Maryland, Emergency Medical Institute, Akron, Ohio, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
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Extract

There is a rich mythology surrounding disasters and our response to them, which has built up over decades and hampers a scientific and objective response to the salvage of life and property. That mythology supports rationales for not dealing prospectively with the very real, but unpredictable, quirks of mankind, nature, and technology. Our response to disaster planning is all too often characterized by ignorance, with a fair share of parochialism, misinformation and unrealistic expectations.

Type
Papers from the Second International Assembly on Emergency Medical Services: Focus on Disasters, Baltimore, Maryland, April, 1986
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 2 , Issue 1-4: Contributions from the Second International Assembly on Emergency Medical Services-Focus on Disaster, Baltimore, Md., USA, 1986 and 4th World Congress on Emergency and Disaster Medicine Brighton, U.K. June, 1985 , 1986 , pp. 83 - 88
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1986

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