CHSJ

Curr Health Sci J, vol. 39, no. 4, 2013

The Identification of the Victims in Case of Catastrophe or Mass Casualty Accidents

[For Practitioner]

L. ROTARU(1)


(1)Emergency Medicine and First Aide Department, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, Emergency Department - SMURD University County Hospital Craiova


Abstract:

Medical approach of a catastrophe or mass casualty accidents is an interdisciplinary issue which brings in discussion complex aspects of emergency medicine but also of forensic,criminal law and criminology. Emergency medicine physician is more and more often in the position of managing a catastrophe in which medical disaster is doubled by material loss,impressive by value and dimensions. Depending on the event,this emergency situations implies not only the emergency medicine physician but also other physicians, institutions and persons to aply the law. It is noted the need to a well known procedure for victims identification in case of disasters and catastrophe, as well as importance of standardized forms for emergency situations involving multiple casualties. It requires the existence of a national computerized data collection for disaster and catastrophe situations, and for mass accidents. The responsibility of identifying and managing victims in disaster situations or catastrophe belongs to such organizations like the Police, the prosecution, the rangers, the fire department, with the involvement of the emergency medical services.


Keywords: mass casualty incidents, disaster, victim identification



Corresponding: Luciana Rotaru, M.D.PhD, Craiova, Tabaci st., no. 1, zip code 200642, Dolj county; e-mail: lucianarotaru@yahoo.com


DOI 10.12865/CHSJ.39.04.10 - Download PDF
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