Prehospital management of earthquake casualties buried under rubble.
Earthquakes continue to exact a heavy toll on life, injury, and loss of property. Survival of casualties extricated from under the rubble depends upon early medical interventions by emergency teams on site. The objective of this paper is to review the pertinent literature and to analyze the information as a practical guideline for the medical management of casualties accidentally buried alive.
Ashkenazi
Itamar
I
Surgery B/Trauma Unit, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, Israel. i_ashkenazi@yahoo.com
Isakovich
Boris
B
Kluger
Yoram
Y
Alfici
Ricardo
R
Kessel
Boris
B
Better
Ori S
OS
D004190:Disasters; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D018635:Rescue Work; D014218:Triage; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000628:therapy*