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Civilian Emergency Hospital Plans for Conventional War in Sweden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Karl-Axel Norberg  and
Bo Brismar
Karl-Axel Norberg
Affiliation:
Department of Anesthesiology of theHospital in Danderyd and the Department of Surgery of the Hospital in Huddinge, Sweden.
Bo Brismar
Affiliation:
Department of Anesthesiology of theHospital in Danderyd and the Department of Surgery of the Hospital in Huddinge, Sweden.
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In war a large number of military and civilian wounded and injured patients, and patients with disease, will increase the strain on the system of medical care. The expected distribution of injured in a conventional war can be estimated on the basis of previous war experiences, especially from World War II (1), the Korean war (5), the Vietnam war (7, 8), and the Arab-Israel wars (3). Corresponding figures for the civilian population are less readily accessible. Statistical data from previous wars as well as expected weapon development can be compared with data from various peacetime accidents and disasters. Thus, the expected distribution of injuries can be estimated (Table 1) (7).

Type
Section Three—Military Contributions to Disaster Medicine
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 1 , Issue 1: Military and Disaster Medicine , Spring 1985 , pp. 28 - 30
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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