A Simulated Mass Casualty Incident Triage Exercise: SimWars
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Field triage and patient maldistribution in a mass-casualty incident.
INTRODUCTION Management of mass-casualty incidents should optimize outcomes by appropriate prehospital care, and patient triage to the most capably facilities. The number of patients, the nature of injuries, transportation needs, distances, and hospital capabilities and availabilities are all factors to be considered. Patient maldistributions such as overwhelming individual facilities, or trans...
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عنوان ژورنال: MedEdPORTAL
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2374-8265
DOI: 10.15766/mep_2374-8265.10823