@article{ref1,
title="Emergency with resiliency equals efficiency - challenges of an EMT-3 in Nepal",
journal="Prehospital and disaster medicine",
year="2018",
author="Yitzhak, Avraham and Merin, Ofer and Halevy, Jonathan and Tarif, Bader",
volume="33",
number="6",
pages="673-677",
abstract="The 7.8 MW (moment magnitude scale) earthquake that hit Nepal on April 25, 2015 caused significant casualties and serious damage to infrastructure.The Israeli Emergency Medical Team (IEMT; later verified as EMT-3) was deployed 80 hours after the earthquake. A Forward Disaster Scout Team (FDST) that was dispatched to the disaster area a few hours after the disaster relayed pre-deployment information.The EMT staff was comprised of 42 physicians. A total of 1,668 patients were treated. The number of non-trauma cases increased as the days went by. The hospitalization rate was 31%. Wound debridement procedures were the most common operations performed.Yitzhak A, Merin O, Halevy J, Tarif B. Emergency with resiliency equals efficiencychallenges of an EMT-3 in Nepal.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1049-023X",
doi="10.1017/S1049023X18000936",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X18000936"
}