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Triage and Its Ethical Problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

H. Roding
H. Roding
Affiliation:
Surgical Clinic, County Hospital, Potsdam, German Democratic Republic.
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Mass disasters are exceptional situations, requiring exceptional efforts of medical services and institutions, to overcome the problems and consequences of those affected. According to a commonly accepted definition, a disproportion between objectively required and actually possible aid is the main distinguishing mark. In such a situation, the target function of health systems must change as much as possible to help save injured persons lives and to avoid severe consequences, because simultaneous aid for all is temporarily impossible.

Type
Research Article
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 3 , Issue 1: Contributions from the Third World Congress on Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Rome, Italy, May, 1983 , 1987 , pp. 10 - 11
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1987

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