{"pk":61777,"title":"Mass Casualty Management in the Emergency Department - Lessons Learned in Beirut, Lebanon - Part I","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Over the last century, mass casualty incidents (MCIs) affected many nations and their emergency departments. The unscheduled arrival of large number of injured victims over a short period of time often causes major chaos and crowding. When a rapid surge in operational needs overwhelms available Emergency Department (ED) resources and personnel, the chaos and overwhelming mismatch between needs and resources can quickly spread to the rest of the hospital.1, 2 Nonetheless, as the front door of the hospital, the ED plays a pivotal role in determining the quality and effectiveness of an institution’s MCI response. This requires effective planning, which translates into preparedness. Unfortunately, many EDs are overburdened even on regular days. Damaged infrastructure further compounds the challenge.","language":"English","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"disaster, emergency, mass casualty, mass casualty management, triage, preparedness"}],"section":"Special Contribution","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/742605wb","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Eveline","middle_name":"A","last_name":"Hitti","name_suffix":"","institution":"American University of Beirut, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beirut","department":""},{"first_name":"Mazen","middle_name":"J","last_name":"El Sayed","name_suffix":"","institution":"American University of Beirut, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beirut","department":""},{"first_name":"Mohamad Ali","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cheaito","name_suffix":"","institution":"American University of Beirut, Lebanon","department":""},{"first_name":"Arthur","middle_name":"L","last_name":"Kellermann","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda","department":""},{"first_name":"Amin","middle_name":"Antoine","last_name":"Kazzi","name_suffix":"","institution":"American University of Beirut, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beirut","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2019-10-17T16:18:22+02:00","date_accepted":"2019-10-17T16:18:22+02:00","date_published":"2020-01-01T09:00:00+01:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uciem_medjem/article/61777/galley/47664/download/"}]}