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Hospital disaster plans<br />

• Overcrowding of the nearest facility<br />

by spontaneous uncontrolled flights<br />

• Hospital admission capacity :<br />

- different from the number of beds that<br />

can be made available<br />

- the actual bottleneck is the ER and its<br />

capacity to recruit medical teams<br />

• Efficient use of resources :<br />

– appropriate distribution of the casualties from the scene<br />

– only skilled personnel in the ER

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