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Casualty Patterns in Disasters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

David P. Sklar
David P. Sklar
Affiliation:
Division of Emergency Medicine, the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico U.S.A.
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This brief examination of casualty patterns suggests that differences may exist in the numbers of immediately dead and critical patients, depending on the nature of the disaster. More data must be collected from future disasters to more accurately define relationships between critical patients and total numbers injured. Such characterization is essential for hospital disaster planning because critical patients require great resources and optimal hospital functioning.

Knowledge of casualty patterns can make disaster planning more practical, disaster drills more realistic, and disasters less disastrous.

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Research Article
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 3 , Issue 1: Contributions from the Third World Congress on Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Rome, Italy, May, 1983 , 1987 , pp. 49 - 51
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1987

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