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Multi-Casualty Incident EMS Response at a Very Remote Location

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Craig R. Lewis  and
Mark S. Johnson
Craig R. Lewis
Affiliation:
Executive Director of the Interior Region EMS Council, Inc., Fairbanks, Alaska.
Mark S. Johnson*
Affiliation:
Chief of the Emergency Medical Services Section, Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, Juneau, Alaska
*
Chief of the Emergency Medical Services Section, Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, P.O. Box H, Juneau, Alaska 99811-0616USA
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When a multiple patient incident occurs in a remote location, significant challenges are presented to the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system. Emergency medical services systems need to have the capability to respond effectively to major incidents anywhere within the service area.

On 2 September, 1988, some time after 1400H, a Gray Line of Alaska tour bus overturned at milepost 132 on the Taylor Highway in the interior region of Alaska. The bus rolled from a soft shoulder down a hill as it attempted to pass a large truck going the opposite direction. The accident location was 220 air miles east of Fairbanks, a city of about 60,000 population.

Type
Case Report
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , June 1992 , pp. 175 - 178
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1992

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References

1. Johnson, MS, Neal, RT: The States of EMS Communications (unpublished) Lexington, Ky.: National Association of State EMS Directors, 1988.Google Scholar