Citation

Yitzhak A, Merin O, Halevy J, Tarif B. Prehosp. Disaster Med. 2018; 33(6): 673-677.

Affiliation

1Israel Defense Forces,Medical Corps,Tel Aviv,Israel.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Cambridge University Press)

DOI

10.1017/S1049023X18000936

PMID

30430960

Abstract

The 7.8 MW (moment magnitude scale) earthquake that hit Nepal on April 25, 2015 caused significant casualties and serious damage to infrastructure.The Israeli Emergency Medical Team (IEMT; later verified as EMT-3) was deployed 80 hours after the earthquake. A Forward Disaster Scout Team (FDST) that was dispatched to the disaster area a few hours after the disaster relayed pre-deployment information.The EMT staff was comprised of 42 physicians. A total of 1,668 patients were treated. The number of non-trauma cases increased as the days went by. The hospitalization rate was 31%. Wound debridement procedures were the most common operations performed.Yitzhak A, Merin O, Halevy J, Tarif B. Emergency with resiliency equals efficiencychallenges of an EMT-3 in Nepal.

Language: en

Keywords

EMT Emergency Medical Team; FDST Forward Disaster Scout Team; ICU intensive care unit; IDF Israel Defense Forces; IEMT Israeli Emergency Medical Team; SOD sudden onset disaster; WHO World Health Organization; IDF; Nepal; Type 3 EMT; earthquake; emergency medical team