Civil protection and disaster medicine in Germany today

Fischer, Philipp; Wafaisade, Arasch; Bail, Hermann Josef; Domres, B.; Kabir, K.; Braun, Thomas

doi:10.1007/s00423-011-0767-x

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“…Specialized training courses for disaster preparedness are provided by different institutions and organizations, catering to both medical and nonmedical personnel. 24 …”

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Orthopedic surgery in disaster

Altintas,

Helfet

2024

Acta Orthopaedica et Traumatologica Turcica

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“…Specialized training courses for disaster preparedness are provided by different institutions and organizations, catering to both medical and nonmedical personnel. 24 …”

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confidence: 99%

Orthopedic surgery in disaster

Altintas,

Helfet

2024

Acta Orthopaedica et Traumatologica Turcica

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“…Literature review on the multifaceted and comparatively new field of health emergency management offers terms such as “response”, “preparedness”, “disaster”, “risk reduction”, and so on, none of which is as explicit or definite as desired [6,7]. The term “disaster” in itself has competing definitions: “emergency”, “incident”, “accident”, and “catastrophe” are the words that are interchangeably used in publications based on the authors’ ideas [8-10]. Some authors have used the word “readiness” and “preparedness” interchangeably [2, 11-21].…”

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A Productive Proposed Search Syntax for Health Disaster Preparedness Research

Rastegarfar¹,

Ardalan²,

Nejat³

et al. 2019

BEAT

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Objective:To find a proper search strategy to do a systematic review related to preparedness for disasters.Methods:MeSH and Emtree terms were searched to detect synonyms for two main search terms “disaster” and “preparedness”. Expert opinion on the synonyms was examined applying a Google form. The adopted syntax was searched in PubMed and results were sifted. Hand searching in two top key journals was done and sensitivity was calculated.Results:Out of 1120 articles, 122 were included. In PDM journal, 10 articles were included by hand searching, out of which 5 were not spotted in PubMed search with the proposed syntax. In DMPHP journal, 13 publications were included, with 5 not found in PubMed search. Because of human error in hand searching 2 articles were added. Conclusion: The proposed syntax in this study achieves a sensitivity of search of 0.6 in PubMed which could be quite applicable for researchers. Moreover, in case only MeSH or Emtree terms were applied in search strategy or where hand searching was not performed, there were a number of articles missed.

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“…7 In Germany, where ambulances are also staffed with prehospital physicians and nurses like Italy, providers have specific training requirements for disaster relief operations. 8 Recent reports suggest that formal mass casualty training is being now delivered at the postgraduate training level, and this is usually based on general principles rather than operational procedures. 9,10 It appears reasonable for a prehospital management agency to design and run a dedicated prehospital management training program for its personnel.…”

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A Region-Wide All-Hazard Training Program for Prehospital Mass Casualty Incident Management: A Real-World Case Study

Carenzo

Ingrassia²,

Foti

et al. 2022

Disaster med. public health prep.

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Background We report the development, implementation and results of a sustainable region-wide mass-casualty management pre-hospital training program implemented by the Regione Lombardia emergency medical services (EMS) agency AREU in Italy. Methods The educational program learning objectives are: 1) Command and control, communications and resource management. 2) Mass casualty triage and the START triage protocol. 3) On-scene management 4) Regione Lombardia and AREU Mass Casualty standard operating procedures 5) Inter-agency communications and relations. For each course edition data on participants summative assessment, participants feedback and costs were collected. Results Between June 26th,2013 and December 31st,2020 a total of 84 editions of the provider training event were delivered, training an overall 1329 prehospital providers. 1239 (93%) passed the summative assessment and were qualified as being operationally “ready”. Regarding participants’ feedback, the overall program was rated 4.4±0.7out of 5. The overall cost of running the provider program during the study period was € 321,510 (circa US$ 382,000). The average cost per edition was € 3,828 and € 242 per participant. Conclusions We have described a simple yet interactive simulation and blended-learning approach, which has yielded good pass rates, good participant satisfaction and contained costs to systematically train emergency medical service personnel.

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Civil protection and disaster medicine in Germany today

Abstract: Emergency medical training must be adapted to the increase in disasters, mass casualty incidents, and terrorist threats.

Cited by 12 publications

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Orthopedic surgery in disaster

Orthopedic surgery in disaster

A Productive Proposed Search Syntax for Health Disaster Preparedness Research

A Region-Wide All-Hazard Training Program for Prehospital Mass Casualty Incident Management: A Real-World Case Study

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