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Emergency Medical Care for Mass Accidents in Prague, CSSR

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Bohumil Sefrna  and
Mikes Rudolf
Bohumil Sefrna
Affiliation:
From the First Aid Station, Dukelskych Hrdinu, 21 Prague, CSSR.
Mikes Rudolf
Affiliation:
From the First Aid Station, Dukelskych Hrdinu, 21 Prague, CSSR.
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The Prague Emergency Service brought help in many cases of mass accidents with 30 to 120 injured persons (explosions, train crashes, plane crashes, tram crashes, etc.) during the years 1955–1979. We have discovered facts from our own experience and by comparison with disasters in other parts of our country. Prague's mobile ICU-type ambulance service has provided advanced resuscitation and life-support by physicians, since the early 1960s, also for multicasualty incidents.

It is necessary to reduce the consequences of mass injuries to a minimum. Some principal questions are: who is to be treated immediately, who can wait, where is help unnecessary?

Type
Part III: International Organizations - Planning - Disaster Events
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 1 , supplement S1: Disaster Resuscitology , 1985 , pp. 338
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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