Intensive care in a field hospital in an urban disaster area: lessons from the August 1999 earthquake in Turkey

Author(s)
Halpern, P., Rosen, B., Carasso, S., Sorkine, P., Wolf, Y., Benedek, P. and Martinovich, G.
Publication language
English
Date published
01 May 2003
Publisher
Crit Care Med. 2003 May;31(5):1410-4
Type
After action & learning reviews
Keywords
Disasters, Health, Response and recovery, Urban
Countries
Turkey
Link
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12771611

The objective of the paper is to describe the experience with the implementation of intensive care in the setting of a field hospital, deployed to the site of a major urban disaster.