title: Prehospital management of earthquake casualties buried under rubble.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Surgery B/Trauma Unit, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, Israel. i_ashkenazi@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Itamar
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ashkenazi
authors.forename: Boris
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Isakovich
authors.forename: Yoram
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kluger
authors.forename: Ricardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Alfici
authors.forename: Boris
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kessel
authors.forename: Ori S
authors.initials: OS
authors.lastname: Better
mesh_terms: D004190:Disasters; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D018635:Rescue Work; D014218:Triage; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000628:therapy*