Hospital response to a major freeway bridge collapse
| Autor: | Jonathan Pohland, Michael Clark, Douglas D. Brunette, Gregory J. Beilman, Jeffrey G. Chipman, Marc Conterato, William G. Heegaard, John L. Hick, Jeffrey D. Ho, Gregory Loppnow, David J. Roberts, Joseph E. Clinton |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Emergency management business.industry Patient Tracking Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Accidents Traffic Poison control Disaster Planning medicine.disease Occupational safety and health Disasters Mass-casualty incident Injury Severity Score Incident management Health care Emergency medicine Injury prevention medicine Humans Wounds and Injuries Medical emergency Triage business Emergency Service Hospital Automobiles |
| Zdroj: | Disaster medicine and public health preparedness. 2 |
| ISSN: | 1938-744X |
| Popis: | Background: We describe the hospital system response to the Interstate 35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis into the Mississippi River on August 1, 2007, which resulted in 13 deaths and 127 injuries. Comparative analysis of response activities at the 3 hospitals that received critical or serious casualties is provided.Methods: First-hand experiences of hospital physicians, issues identified in after-action reports, injury severity scores, and other relevant patient data were collected from the 3 hospitals that received seriously injured patients, including the closest hospitals to the collapse on each side of the river.Results/Discussion: Injuries were consistent with major acceleration/deceleration force injuries. The most critical patients arrived first at each hospital, suggesting appropriate prehospital triage. Capacity of the health care system was not overwhelmed and the involved hospitals generally reported an overresponse by staff. Communication and patient tracking problems occurred at all of the hospitals. Situational awareness was limited due to the scope of structural collapse and incomplete information from the scene.Conclusions: Hospitals were generally satisfied with their surge capacity and incident management plan activation. Issues such as communications, patient tracking, and staff overreporting that have been identified in past incidents also were problematic in this event. Hospitals will need to address deficiencies and build on successful actions to cope with future, potentially larger incidents. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2008;2(Suppl 1):S11–S16) |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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