TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - KAMEDO report no. 79: train accident in Germany, 1998
JO  - Prehospital and disaster medicine
A1  - Iselius, Lennart
A1  - Nilsson, Per-Ake
A1  - Riddez, Louis
SP  - 119
EP  - 120
VL  - 21
IS  - 2
N2  - A train traveling at 200 kilometers per hour carrying 300 passengers crashed into a bridge. At leaset 85 doctors and 1889 persons were involved in the emergency response. A total of 101 persons were killed, 108 were injured, and 87 were transported to a hospital (27 by helicopter; 60 by land ambulance). Eighty percent of the severely injured were trasported to a hosptial within two hours of the crash. Coordination of the activities of the hoards of responders was an issue, as was the lack of a formal organization to provide psychosocial support. Preparedness plans should include management of the dead and for the provision of psychosocial support.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1049-023X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -