TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Emergency with resiliency equals efficiency - challenges of an EMT-3 in Nepal
JO  - Prehospital and disaster medicine
A1  - Yitzhak, Avraham
A1  - Merin, Ofer
A1  - Halevy, Jonathan
A1  - Tarif, Bader
SP  - 673
EP  - 677
VL  - 33
IS  - 6
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1049-023X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X18000936
ID  - ref1
ER  -