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Terror Medicine: Education and Training
If a mass casualty incident (MCI) occurs on American territory, the main difficulty with disaster response is not from a lack of resources or volunteers but from a lack of a properly managed disaster plan. In fact, first responders and local healthcare practitioners, and even non-clinical locals rus...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7122274/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09412-0_5 |
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description | If a mass casualty incident (MCI) occurs on American territory, the main difficulty with disaster response is not from a lack of resources or volunteers but from a lack of a properly managed disaster plan. In fact, first responders and local healthcare practitioners, and even non-clinical locals rush to the scene and to local healthcare facilities to offer their services or make donations. The presence of so many volunteers and donations can be of great help during a disaster if properly managed. Even before 9/11, hospitals were required to have a disaster plan and ensure that their employees were familiar with it. Very few hospitals, however, actually worked on coordinating their disaster response plans with other hospital facilities, Emergency Medical Services (EMS), or local governmental facilities to offer a united response in case of a disaster.(1) Healthcare institutions therefore had difficulties not only working with other institutions preparing for a disaster but also were often unprepared for managing unexpected resources from the community. |
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spelling | pubmed-71222742020-04-06 Terror Medicine: Education and Training Millo, Yuri Essentials of Terror Medicine Article If a mass casualty incident (MCI) occurs on American territory, the main difficulty with disaster response is not from a lack of resources or volunteers but from a lack of a properly managed disaster plan. In fact, first responders and local healthcare practitioners, and even non-clinical locals rush to the scene and to local healthcare facilities to offer their services or make donations. The presence of so many volunteers and donations can be of great help during a disaster if properly managed. Even before 9/11, hospitals were required to have a disaster plan and ensure that their employees were familiar with it. Very few hospitals, however, actually worked on coordinating their disaster response plans with other hospital facilities, Emergency Medical Services (EMS), or local governmental facilities to offer a united response in case of a disaster.(1) Healthcare institutions therefore had difficulties not only working with other institutions preparing for a disaster but also were often unprepared for managing unexpected resources from the community. 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC7122274/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09412-0_5 Text en © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
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title | Terror Medicine: Education and Training |
title_full | Terror Medicine: Education and Training |
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title_full_unstemmed | Terror Medicine: Education and Training |
title_short | Terror Medicine: Education and Training |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7122274/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09412-0_5 |
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