Emergency with Resiliency Equals Efficiency – Challenges of an EMT-3 in Nepal. Issue 6 (15th November 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yitzhak, Avraham; Merin, Ofer; Halevy, Jonathan; Tarif, Bader
• Is Part Of: Prehospital and disaster medicine. Volume 33:Issue 6(2018)
• Page Start: 673
• Page End: 677
• Publication Date: 2018-11-15
• Subjects: earthquake, -- emergency medical team, -- IDF, -- Nepal, -- Type 3 EMT; Emergency medical services -- Periodicals; Emergency medicine -- Periodicals; Disaster medicine -- Periodicals; 616.025
• DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X18000936
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1049-023X

Abstract

Abstract: The 7.8 MW (moment magnitude scale) earthquake that hit Nepal on April 25, 2015 caused significant casualties and serious damage to infrastructure. The Israeli Emergency Medical Team (IEMT; later verified as EMT-3) was deployed 80 hours after the earthquake. A Forward Disaster Scout Team (FDST) that was dispatched to the disaster area a few hours after the disaster relayed pre-deployment information. The EMT staff was comprised of 42 physicians. A total of 1, 668 patients were treated. The number of non-trauma cases increased as the days went by. The hospitalization rate was 31%. Wound debridement procedures were the most common operations performed. A Yitzhak, O Merin, J Halevy, B Tarif .Emergency with resiliency equals efficiency- challenges of an EMT-3 in Nepal .Prehosp Disaster Med .2018 ;33 (6 ):673 –677 .