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Hypothesis on Loss from Natural Catastrophe (Seismic) and on the Organization of an Emergency Medical Services (EMS) System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

G. Ruggieri ,
E. Bruzzese  and
C. Manni
G. Ruggieri
Affiliation:
From the Italian Air Force, Medical Corp, 00185 Rome, Italy
E. Bruzzese
Affiliation:
Centro Studi e Ricerche Sanita Militare, 00184 Rome, Italy
C. Manni
Affiliation:
lstituto di Anestesiologia e Rianimazione, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168 Rome, Italy.
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Extract

The problem of forecasting the number of injured in need of treatment as a consequence of earthquake damage, and the percentage of those in need of diversified forms of therapy, still remains unresolved. Past experience provides us with partial and variable figures. It may thus be useful to propose as a working hypothesis some degree of comparability between the effects caused by the energy released by earthquakes and those resulting from nuclear explosions, especially as regards some of their predominant aspects (collapse of buildings).

Type
Part III: International Organizations - Planning - Disaster Events
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 1 , supplement S1: Disaster Resuscitology , 1985 , pp. 410 - 411
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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