EMERGENCY-MEDICINE IN THE PERSIAN-GULF-WAR .1. PREPARATIONS FOR TRIAGE AND COMBAT CASUALTY CARE

Authors
BURKLE FM OREBAUGH S BARENDSE BR
Citation
Fm. Burkle et al., EMERGENCY-MEDICINE IN THE PERSIAN-GULF-WAR .1. PREPARATIONS FOR TRIAGE AND COMBAT CASUALTY CARE, Annals of emergency medicine, 23(4), 1994, pp. 742-747
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Emergency Medicine & Critical Care
Journal title
Annals of emergency medicine → ACNP
ISSN journal
01960644
Volume
23
Issue
4
Year of publication
1994
Pages
742 - 747
Database
ISI
SICI code
0196-0644(1994)23:4<742:EITP.P>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
We report the planning and preparations for triage and emergency care at a unique Level I desert trauma facility before the Persian Gulf War . The facility was designed to accomplish sorting, resuscitation, and emergency life- and limb-saving surgical functions of massive numbers of casualties within the war zone. Plans included triage preparations, for neuropsychiatric patients and the biologically and chemically cont aminated. Emergency physicians were essential to the triage planning a nd process.