Urban Search and Rescue

Barbera, Joseph; Macintyre, Anthony G.

doi:10.1016/s0733-8627(05)70258-3

Cited by 69 publications

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“…Shock usually happens in the earlier stage of an earthquake injury, whereas injured individuals rescued a little later usually have shock combined with severe crush syndrome. The incidence of shock after an earthquake has been reported to be 3.95–25% 3. Earthquake injury can cause a sharp decrease in effective blood volume leading to insufficient blood volume because of a large wound surface, multisystem, multiple organ involvement, severe organ damage, fragmentation of blood vessels, extravasations from wound surface (mainly whole blood), extreme expansion of capacitance vessel (stasis with plenty of blood), changes in vasopermeability and large extravasations of plasma.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Temporal and spatial characteristics and treatment strategies of traumatic brain injury in Wenchuan earthquake

Yang

Cheng

et al. 2010

Emergency Medicine Journal

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Temporal and spatial characteristics and treatment strategies of traumatic brain injury in Wenchuan earthquake

Yang

Cheng

et al. 2010

Emergency Medicine Journal

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“…Another important element that supports the need for being prepared for incoming international disaster assistance is the response time that is available; time is crucial for victim survival and preparedness can decrease this time [19,20]. External resources need time to reach local responders [18].…”

Section: International Response To Disastersmentioning

confidence: 99%

EU FloodEx 2009: an analysis of testing international assistance during a worst credible flood scenario in the North Sea area

Beerens

Kolen

Helsloot³

2010

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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This paper discusses a case study example of testing international disaster response assistance within the European Union during a worst credible flood scenario in the North Sea area. It describes and evaluates the processes of requesting and receiving international assistance and the field operations with responding international teams during an exercise for large scale flooding ('EU FloodEx 2009'). It also discusses some of the issues identified during this exercise in the Netherlands. Additionally the characteristics of an (inter)national response in the case of flooding are related to various processes and the effectiveness after initiating them. For initiating and planning of these processes, the results of the exercise are reflected to availability of information during a threat or flood with regards to warning, decision making and response in case of uncertainty. The paper also introduces the structures, mechanisms and teams at the disposal of the Dutch and EU flood response community. It ends by discussing some experiences of 'EU FloodEx 2009' to improve the design of the EU response system and future exercises by implementing the lessons identified.

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“…Initial fluid therapy should be directed at correcting tachycardia or hypotension with rapid volume expansion using isotonic sodium chloride solution or lactated Ringers solution and then slowing to a more controlled rate of 1 to 1.5 L/hr as a continuous infusion (Barbera & MacIntyre, 1996;Gonzalez, 2005;Gunal et al, 2004;Malinoski et al, 2004;Stewart, 2005). Initial treatment, whether out-ofhospital or in-hospital, begins with the initiation of intravenous hydration.…”

Section: Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%