• Prehosp Disaster Med · Jan 2008

    Defining the problem, main objective, and strategies of medical management in mass-casualty incidents caused by terrorist events.

    • Itamar Ashkenazi, Boris Kessel, Oded Olsha, Tawfik Khashan, Meir Oren, Jacob Haspel, and Ricardo Alfici.
    • Surgery B Department, Trauma Unit, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, POB 169, Israel 38100. adi_ita@hotmail.com
    • Prehosp Disaster Med. 2008 Jan 1;23(1):82-9.

    AbstractBased on the experience of managing > 20 such events during the last decade, the authors' understanding of a mass-casualty incident is that it is an event in which there may be many victims, but only a few that actually suffer from life-threatening injuries. To make an impact on survival, one must identify those who are severely wounded as quickly as possible and offer those patients optimal care. Experienced trauma physicians are the most important resource available to achieve this objective, and they should be allocated to the treatment of seriously injured victims instead of more traditional management roles such as triage and incident manager.

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