Disaster in an unexpected, chaotic, horrendous catastrophes and it may be either natural or human origin. Now a days, disasters are occurring at on increasing rate due to population growth and technological advancement. Medical disaster in an incident...
Disaster in an unexpected, chaotic, horrendous catastrophes and it may be either natural or human origin. Now a days, disasters are occurring at on increasing rate due to population growth and technological advancement. Medical disaster in an incident which produces such a number of causalities that makes the routine methods for patient care ar4e inadequate. The public no linger accept these consequences as "act of God" and they demand that disaster risks to be minimized and that any impact to be management in an orderly fashion. So emergency medical personnel must strive to achieve themselves to achieve the greatest good for the greatest number of potential survivors at the disaster scene.
On 28 March 1993, a train carrying 600 passengers rolled over due to railroad collapse. About 170 passengers dies(25 before extrication) and 22 severe wounded survived. Problems in the organization at the scene, triage, and the communication contributed to the confusion in the management of victims. As analysis of this accident allows several lessons to be learn which might prevent or reduce the fatalities from future disaster.
Although Korean community has relied on a model of disaster response deprived from the experience of military and civil defense planners for years. A better approach to organizing medical personnel for the incident with multiple causalities, which is based on the medical response of the emergency medical services organization, will be needed in the near future.