The 2006 Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference discussed key concepts within the field of surge capacity. Within the breakout session on research priorities, experts in disaster medicine and other related fields used a structured nominal-group process to delineate five critical areas of research. Of the 14 potential areas of discovery identified by the group, the top five were the fo...

1. Emergency and Disaster Management Division, Ministry of Health, Israel 2. Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel 3. Department of Health Systems Management, Head of Leon and Mathilda Recanati School for Community Health Professions, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, BeerSheva, Israel 4. Center for Medical Education, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, ...

Disasters and Mass Casualty Incidents (MCI) occur out of the blue, most times without warning, and in a wide scope of locations. Each disaster is different from the rest, both in the past and in the future. This creates a situation where the experience accumulated in one place is relatively small and localized in the long-haul, and it is therefore our duty to learn and share information, knowle...