Minimizing Postdisaster Fatalities

David B Brown; Micah J Smith; Mohamed Tazi Chibi; Nadia Hassani; Bibiche Lotfi

Minimizing Postdisaster Fatalities

Fed Pract. 2017 Feb;34(2):10-13.

Authors

David B Brown¹, Micah J Smith¹, Mohamed Tazi Chibi¹, Nadia Hassani¹, Bibiche Lotfi¹

Affiliation

¹ is a physician assistant in the urology department at the VA Salt Lake City Health Care System and a lieutenant colonel in the Utah Air National Guard; and is an emergency department physician and a lieutenant colonel in the Utah Air National Guard. is the head of the logistics division at the Mohammed V Military Hospital in Rabat and a lieutenant colonel in the Moroccan military; is a health care supervisor in emergency and sports medicine at the Ministry of Health in Rabat, Morocco; and is a resident in anesthesia resuscitation at Moulay Ismail Military Hospital in Meknes and a captain in the Royal Armed Forces of Morocco.

PMID: 30766251
PMCID: PMC6372032

Abstract

Speed of care, efficient use of resources, appropriate triage, quick-response strike teams, and predisaster planning are strategies that can reduce fatalities after an environmental catastrophe.