Mass casualty management
Mass casualty management
Mass casualty management
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What is a disaster ?<br />
versus a mass emergency or a mass <strong>casualty</strong><br />
• Sudden discrepancy between<br />
- acute needs and<br />
- locally available resources<br />
• Failure for a community to cope with the<br />
consequences of a damage<br />
• Inability of a community to meet the<br />
demand for health care<br />
! Time sensitive definitions<br />
« Disaster » : to be preferred when there is a major disruption<br />
of the social and medical infrastructure
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