tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "The World Trade Center Attack Disaster preparedness: health care is ready, but is the bureaucracy"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: The World Trade Center Attack Disaster preparedness: health care is ready, but is the bureaucracy? | Available online http content 5 6 323 Review The World Trade Center Attack Disaster preparedness health care is ready but is the bureaucracy Kenneth Mattox Professor of Surgery Michael E DeBakey Department of Surgery Baylor College of Medicine Houston Texas USA Correspondence Kenneth Mattox KMATTOX@ Published online 6 November 2001 Critical Care 2001 5 323-325 2001 BioMed Central Ltd Print ISSN 1364-8535 Online ISSN 1466-609X Abstract When a disaster occurs it is for governments to provide the leadership civil defense security evacuation and public welfare. The medical aspects of a disaster account for less than 10 of resource and personnel expenditure. Hospitals and health care provider teams respond to unexpected occurrences such as explosions earthquakes floods fires war or the outbreak of an infectious epidemic. In some geographic locations where natural disasters are common such as earthquakes in Japan such disaster practice drills are common. In other locations disaster drills become pro forma and have no similarity to real or even projected and predicted disasters. The World Trade Center disaster on 11 September 2001 provides new information and points out new threats new information systems new communication opportunities and new detection methodologies. It is time for leaders of medicine to re-examine their approaches to disaster preparedness. Keywords bioterrorism detection disaster planning terrorism The Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations JCAHO requires hospitals to have a disaster plan and to periodically run internal . a fire in the basement and external . 100 injuries at a rock concert disaster drills. These drills often involve a simulated traumatic event such as an explosion a fire a building collapse or a major plane crash. Everyone involved is aware that the event is a drill and patients with simulated injuries appear often disrupting busy emergency departments and hospitals. Most drills .