Facilitators and obstacles in pre-hospital medical response to earthquakes: a qualitative study
Open Access
- 16 May 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
- Vol. 19 (1), 30
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-19-30
Abstract
Earthquakes are renowned as being amongst the most dangerous and destructive types of natural disasters. Iran, a developing country in Asia, is prone to earthquakes and is ranked as one of the most vulnerable countries in the world in this respect. The medical response in disasters is accompanied by managerial, logistic, technical, and medical challenges being also the case in the Bam earthquake in Iran. Our objective was to explore the medical response to the Bam earthquake with specific emphasis on pre-hospital medical management during the first days.This publication has 42 references indexed in Scilit:
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