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Case Report: Utilization of a Phased Response Disaster Plan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

John E. Prescott ,
Robert D. Slay  and
William H. Dice
John E. Prescott
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency and Ambulatory Medicine, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.
Robert D. Slay
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency and Ambulatory Medicine, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.
William H. Dice
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency and Ambulatory Medicine, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.
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Extract

The traditional hospital disaster plan is complex and inefficient. Implementation during an actual or perceived crisis usually results in the mobilization of the entire hospital staff and multiple medical resources. This “all or none” phenomenon is costly in terms of manpower and supplies. Furthermore, there is protracted disruption of normal hospital services during disaster plan activation for training or real emergencies.

Type
Research Article
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 3 , Issue 1: Contributions from the Third World Congress on Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Rome, Italy, May, 1983 , 1987 , pp. 55 - 56
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1987

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