Natural disasters significantly contribute to human death and suffering. Moreover, they
exacerbate pre-existing health inequalities by imposing an additional burden on the most …

A scoping review was conducted to describe the history of the National Disaster Medical
System (NDMS) in the context of US military medical preparedness for a large-scale …

Background: In 2003, the Task Force on Quality Control of Disaster Management (WADEM)
published guidelines for evaluation and research on health disaster management and …

Introduction: Anecdotal observations about prehospital emergency medical care in major
natural and human-made disasters, such as earthquakes, have suggested that some injured …

The 12 January 2010 earthquake that struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti caused> 200,000 deaths,
thousands of injuries requiring immediate surgical interventions, and 1.5 million internally …

Many hospital emergency plans focus on the hospital as a disaster responder, with a fully
operational medical facility, able to receive and treat mass casualties from a clearly defined …

Study objective: To describe the type of medical care that disaster medical assistance teams
(DMATs) provided to a community struck by a major hurricane. Study design: A prospective …

The Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) earthquake, which struck Japan on January 17, 1995,
caused 5,488 deaths and tens of thousands of other casualties. The health impacts …

National medical responses to catastrophic disasters have failed to incorporate a
resuscitation component. Purpose: This study sought to determine the lifesaving potentials …

Objective: To determine the prevalence andtypes of disasters on which Disaster Medical
Assistance Teams (DMAT) teams have been deployed. Methods: This descriptive study …