title: [IT network establishment for neuropatients].
abstract: On March 11, 2011, big earthquake and subsequent gigantic tsunami killed more than 20,000 peoples in Tohoku area of Japan. Neurological patients were one such victim because they are usually very vulnerable to such a huge tragedy due to their physical disability including artificial ventilator-support. On occasion of the last tsunami, most cases showed "all or nothing" to lose life or to survive, and there were only a little cases who needed emergency surgical treatment. In the very early period, some neurological patients required electric power to keep their lifesupportive ventilator at evacuation house or even at home. In a week to a couple of months, many neurological patients needed continuous supply of their daily drugs which are essential to keep themselves in steady physical conditions and even for keeping their life.Japanese Neurological Society (JNS) began to establish an emergent assistant network system from January 2012 in an attempt of supplying materials, drugs and energy power to neurological patients who require both under a very early period after any natural or political disaster and a later period. For example, JNS is going to apply IT system to connect distant but safer hospitals which accept emergent patients from the center of disastrous place. JNS may also send emergency medical team to the disastrous place to save neurological patients by passing necessary medicine and materials or moving patients to safer hospitals. JNS will make such a tentative program public on our website to collect many other constructive opinions from general member of the society and neurological patients. After getting those opinions, JNS made up the exact team for this purpose after general meeting of JNS on this May 2012.Based on this team, disaster-mimic trial will be performed in Tokyo, Shizuoka, and Kochi where the next big disaster is going to hit the cities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Okayama University.
authors.forename: Koji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Abe
authors.forename: Shinichiro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Uchiyama
authors.forename: Etsuro
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Matsubara
authors.forename: Shin-Ichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Muramatsu
authors.forename: Naoki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Atsuta
authors.forename: Kazuo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kitagawa
authors.forename: Yasuyuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Iguchi
authors.forename: Hiroaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ooboshi
authors.forename: Ryuji
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kaji
authors.forename: Yasuo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Terao
mesh_terms: D004189:Disaster Planning; D004190:Disasters; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008490:Medical Informatics; D009422:Nervous System Diseases; D009462:Neurology / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*