title: Analysis of the First 100 Patients From the Syrian Civil War Treated in an Israeli District Hospital.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  An analysis of the injuries and treatment of the first 100 patients from the Syrian civil war was conducted to monitor quality of care and outcome.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  As reports of the collapse of health care systems in regions within Syria reach the media, patients find themselves crossing the border into Israel for the treatment of war injuries. Among these patients are combatants, noncombatants, women, and children. Treatment, that is free at the point of care, is a humanitarian imperative for war wounded, and this paper reports the care in an Israeli district hospital of the first 100 patients received.
  
  
  METHODS
  With ethics committee approval, data from the Trauma Registry and electronic patient records were collected and analyzed. No identifying data are presented.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Most patients (94) were male. Seventeen patients were younger than the age of 18 years; 52 patients were in their twenties. Most injuries were the results of gunshot or blast injury (50 and 29 patients, respectively). Two multiple-trauma patients died, 8 were transferred for specialist care, and 90 patients returned from Ziv Hospital to Syria after discharge.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The experience of the care of patients across a hostile border has been unprecedented. Hospital protocols required adjustment to deliver quality clinical and social care to patients suffering from both the acute and chronic effects of civil war.
authors.affiliation: *Department of Surgery, Ziv Medical Center, Safed, Galilee, Israel †Department of Surgery, Western Galilee Hospital, Nahariya, Isreal ‡Bar Ilan University Medical School, Safed, Galilee, Israel §Emergency Department, Ziv Medical Center, Safed, Galilee, Israel ¶Department of Microbiology, Ziv Medical Center, Safed, Galilee, Israel ||Department of Haematology, Ziv Medical Center, Safed, Galilee, Israel **Department of Plastic Surgery, Ziv Medical Center, Safed, Galilee, Israel.
authors.forename: Seema
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Biswas
authors.forename: Igor
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Waksman
authors.forename: Shay
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Baron
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fuchs
authors.forename: Hagai
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rechnitzer
authors.forename: Najib
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Dally
authors.forename: Shokrey
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kassis
authors.forename: Amram
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hadary
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006767:Hospitals, District; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013593:Syria; D000067398:War-Related Injuries / Q000601:surgery*; D055815:Young Adult