The Beirut blast 2020: Lessons learned from the Swiss Emergency Medical Team specialized "Mother & Child".

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American journal of disaster medicine Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI:10.5055/ajdm.2020.0379

Olivier Hagon, Lionel Dumont

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Abstract

On August 4, 2020, Beirut was hit by a devastating explosion leading to mass casualties: thousands were injured and there were significant damages to residences, offices, and health structures. The Emergency Medical Team (EMT) specialized "Mother and Child" was deployed by the Swiss Humanitarian Aid in order to support local health facilities, empower local health professionals to resume clinical activities and ensure access, and continuity of patient care in particular in the fields of gynecology-obstetrics and pediatrics. This communication presents the particularities of an EMT deployment in an urban area of an upper middle-income country with some recommendations for such settings.

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2020年贝鲁特爆炸:从瑞士紧急医疗队专业“母亲与儿童”的经验教训。

2020年8月4日，贝鲁特遭受毁灭性爆炸袭击，造成大规模伤亡:数千人受伤，住宅、办公室和卫生设施遭到严重破坏。瑞士人道主义援助组织部署了"母亲和儿童"专业紧急医疗队，以支持地方保健设施，赋予地方保健专业人员恢复临床活动的能力，并确保获得和持续的病人护理，特别是在妇产科和儿科领域。本通讯介绍了在中高收入国家的城市地区部署急诊医疗的特殊性，并对这种环境提出了一些建议。

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American journal of disaster medicine Medicine-Medicine (all)

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期刊介绍： With the publication of the American Journal of Disaster Medicine, for the first time, comes real guidance in this new medical specialty from the country"s foremost experts in areas most physicians and medical professionals have never seen…a deadly cocktail of catastrophic events like blast wounds and post explosion injuries, biological weapons contamination and mass physical and psychological trauma that comes in the wake of natural disasters and disease outbreak. The journal has one goal: to provide physicians and medical professionals the essential informational tools they need as they seek to combine emergency medical and trauma skills with crisis management and new forms of triage.