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The Role of the Physician at a Medical Disaster: Hospital Emergency Response Teams

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Eric Alcouloumre  and
Davis Rasumoff
Eric Alcouloumre
Affiliation:
Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Davis Rasumoff
Affiliation:
Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
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The Hospital Emergency Response Team concept, as outlined here and in the Multi-Casualty Incident Operational Procedures of the California Fire Chiefs Association, is the result of a consensus effort by all EMS interest groups in Los Angeles. It is an effective way to utilize the skills of emergency medical personnel at the scene of a disaster. The role of the physician is an important one, and this concept was specifically designed to maximize the benefit to be derived from having a physician at the scene. It is important, however, that physicians recognize their limitations; a medical degree does not automatically confer “mystic abilities”in the area of disaster management. The role of the physician should include pre-disaster planning and at-scene patient management responsibilities as a member or leader of a pre-designated hospital-based emergency medical response team.

Type
Selected papers from the 4th World Congress on Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Brighton, United Kingdom, June, 1985
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 2 , Issue 1-4: Contributions from the Second International Assembly on Emergency Medical Services-Focus on Disaster, Baltimore, Md., USA, 1986 and 4th World Congress on Emergency and Disaster Medicine Brighton, U.K. June, 1985 , 1986 , pp. 128 - 132
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1986

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