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Military-Civilian Collaboration for Disaster Medicine in the USSR (Discussion Comment)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Gueorgui Alexejev
Affiliation:
Principal Clinical Military Hospital (Burdenko), Moscow, USSR.

Extract

The efficiency of EMS, especially resuscitation of the severely wounded, depends upon speed and skills. This requires well-organized military-civilian collaboration, as shown during recent earthquakes in Ashkhabad and Tashkent. Reasons include the great mobility of military medical units, including field hospitals; communication facilities; specialized means of transportation; readiness of equipment and supplies; as well as skillled military medical personnel.

Type
Section Three—Military Contributions to Disaster Medicine
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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