Citation

Burkle FM, Orebaugh S, Barendse BR. Ann. Emerg. Med. 1994; 23(4): 742-747.

Affiliation

Department of Surgery, University of Hawaii, John A Burns School of Medicine, Kapiolani Medical Center, Honolulu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, American College of Emergency Physicians, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8161042

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 contaminated. Emergency physicians were essential to the triage planning and process.

Language: en