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A Redundant Resource: A Pre-Planned Casualty Clearing Station for a FIFA 2010 Stadium in Durban

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2012

Timothy C. Hardcastle ,
Sanjay Samlal ,
Rajen Naidoo ,
Steven Hendrikse ,
Alex Gloster ,
Melvin Ramlal ,
Sibongiseni Ngema  and
Michael Rowe
Timothy C. Hardcastle*
Affiliation:
Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital and Department of Surgery, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
Sanjay Samlal
Affiliation:
Emergency Medical Rescue Service, eThekwini District and Department of Health, KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
Rajen Naidoo
Affiliation:
Emergency Medical Rescue Service, eThekwini District and Department of Health, KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
Steven Hendrikse
Affiliation:
eThekwini Metropolitan Fire & Rescue Service, Durban, South Africa
Alex Gloster
Affiliation:
eThekwini Metropolitan Fire & Rescue Service, Durban, South Africa
Melvin Ramlal
Affiliation:
eThekwini Metropolitan Fire & Rescue Service, Durban, South Africa
Sibongiseni Ngema
Affiliation:
Department of Health, KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Michael Rowe
Affiliation:
Natal Mounted Rifles, Durban, South Africa
*
Correspondence: Timothy C. Hardcastle, MD, Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital Private Bag X03 Mayville 4058 South Africa E-mail timothyhar@ialch.co.za
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Abstract

This report details the background, planning, and establishment of a mass-casualty management area for the Durban Moses Mabhida Stadium at the Natal Mounted Rifles base, by the Department of Health and the eThekwini Fire and Rescue Service, for the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) 2010 Soccer World Cup. The report discusses the use of the site during the seven matches played at that stadium, and details the aspects of mass-gathering major incident site planning for football (soccer).

The area also was used as a treatment area for other single patient incidents outside of the stadium, but within the exclusion perimeter, and the 22 patients treated by the Casualty Clearing Station (CCS) team are described and briefly discussed. A site-specific patient presentation rate of 0.48 per 10,000 and transport-to-hospital rate (TTHR) of 0.09/10,000 are reported. Lessons learned and implications for future event planning are discussed in the light of the existing literature.

Hardcastle TC, Samlal S, Naidoo R, Hendrikse S, Gloster A, Ramlal M, Ngema S, Rowe M. A Redundant Resource: A Pre-Planned Casualty Clearing Station for a FIFA 2010 Stadium in Durban. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2012;27(2):1-7 .

Keywords

Federation Internationale de Football AssociationFIFAmass gathering medicinepatient presentation ratetriageWorld Cup

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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 27 , Issue 5 , October 2012 , pp. 409 - 415
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2012

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