The World Trade Center attack. Disaster preparedness: health care is ready, but is the bureaucracy?
The World Trade Center attack. Disaster preparedness: health care is ready, but is the bureaucracy?
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10.1186/cc1062
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发表时间：
2001-12
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Mattox K
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Mattox K
当灾害发生时，政府应该提供领导、民防、安全、疏散和公共福利。灾害的医疗方面占资源和人员支出的不到10%。医院和医疗保健提供者团队应对突发事件，如爆炸，地震，洪水，火灾，战争或传染病的爆发。在一些自然灾害常见的地理位置，如日本的地震，这种灾害演习是常见的。在其他地方，灾难演习只是形式上的，与真实的甚至是预测和预测的灾难没有任何相似之处。2001年9月11日世界贸易中心的灾难提供了新的信息，并指出了新的威胁，新的信息系统，新的通信机会和新的检测方法。现在是医学界领导人重新审视他们的备灾方法的时候了。
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.