OXYGEN FOR NUMEROUS PATIENTS AND DISASTERS MEDICINE

Citation
A. Larcan et al., OXYGEN FOR NUMEROUS PATIENTS AND DISASTERS MEDICINE, Bulletin de l'Academie nationale de medecine, 182(6), 1998, pp. 1191-1208
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
ISSN journal
00014079
Volume
182
Issue
6
Year of publication
1998
Pages
1191 - 1208
Database
ISI
SICI code
0001-4079(1998)182:6<1191:OFNPAD>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
The distribution of oxygen to many victims can be necessary all along the medical help chain. operations of extraction, stand up, recovery t ransport, life supporting care, surviving and transportation in mobile processing formations installed to proximity of the site, evacuations by road or by fly. Moreover hospital in situation of crisis has an in creased oxygen consumption (especially for. ventilators). An estimable need calculation, a census of stocking and distribution ways have to allow to adapt resources to needs. Proposed solutions are the strength ening of vehicles in oxygen tanks, utilization of liquid oxygen tanks in large mobile formations and particular procedures to supply hospita l crisis situation.