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National Disaster Medical System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Thomas P. Reutershan
Thomas P. Reutershan
Affiliation:
National Disaster Medical System, U.S. Public Health Service, Rockville, Maryland, U.S.A.
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A National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) has been planned to deal with medical care needs in disasters of great magnitude. NDMS is based on the concepts of the Civilian-Military Contingency Hospital System, in which civilian hospitals voluntarily commit a portion of their beds for military casualties. In the NDMS, the hospital beds will be augmented by medical teams and logistic support to enable the system to serve a large civilian disaster. The system is a cooperative effort of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Defense, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, State and local governments, and the private sector. NDMS will comprise 150 disaster medical response teams to clear and stage civilian casualties, an evacuation system, and 100,000 pre-committed beds in hospitals throughout the Nation. The system will serve national needs in the event of a massive peace-time disaster or an overseas conventional military conflict.

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. 74 - 77
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1986

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