Designing A National Disaster Medical System

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• Alternative Title:
  Public Health Rep
• Personal Author:
  Brandt, E N ; Mayer, W N ; Mason, J O ; Brown, D E ; Mahoney, L E
• Description:
  The National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) is a partnership of private and public sectors to provide care to the victims of great disasters. The system is being developed as a voluntary cooperative effort of four major Federal agencies, State and local governments, and the American professional and hospital communities. A medical response component will include 150 disaster medical assistance units capable of clearing or staging operations in a disaster. Each unit will comprise three 29-person teams containing physicians, nurses, medical technicians, and support personnel and will include a 16-person unit command and support element. An evacuation component will be founded on the military aeromedical evacuation system, augmented by civilian aircraft and other transportation resources. A hospital component will enroll 100,000 pre-committed beds in hospitals throughout the nation. The system is designed to care for up to 100,000 casualties arising from a massive peacetime disaster or an overseas conventional military conflict. The National Disaster Medical System will be implemented over a period of 3 to 5 years. The authors recommend that all parts of the American health care community join in support of the system.
• Subjects:
  Disaster Planning Government Agencies Humans Patient Care Team
• Source:
  Public Health Rep. 100(5):455-461
• Pubmed ID:
  3931158
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMCnull
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  North America
• Volume:
  100
• Issue:
  5
• Collection(s):
  Public Health Reports
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:6722bac49d6746b5f83b3abdaa9553634e168ce65dc237d25fec9fe5844b54fe
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/66254/cdc_66254_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.70 MB ]