Great East Japan Earthquake: Proactive sharing of lessons learned
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Lessons learned from the aeromedical disaster relief activities following the great East Japan earthquake.
INTRODUCTION Since 2001, a Japanese national project has developed a helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) system ("doctor-helicopter") and a central Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) composed of mobile and trained medical teams for rapid deployment during the response phase of a disaster. PROBLEM In Japan, the DMAT Research Group has focused on command and control of doctor-helic...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pediatrics International
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1328-8067
DOI: 10.1111/ped.13529