TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Beirut explosion: challenge of hospital emergency preparedness
JO  - Disaster medicine and public health preparedness
A1  - Helou, Mariana
A1  - El Osta, Nour
A1  - Weinstein, Eric S.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - On August 4, 2020, a major explosion took place in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. Some hospitals in Beirut were destroyed and became nonfunctional, and others were overwhelmed with casualties, with 8643 casualties admitted to emergency departments on that night. The Lebanese American University Medical Center-Rizk Hospital, 2.8 km away from the blast, received an unexpected number of casualties. While a disaster plan was conceived earlier, this hospital's emergency department faced many challenges on that night, and major flaws in their preparedness plan were seen.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1935-7893
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2022.115
ID  - ref1
ER  -