Admission of evacuated mass casualties; experience of the Gulhane Military Medical Academy

Abstract

The quality of medical aid given to injured people during mass causality is related to the success of general organization. Fast and effective intervention is important for all the steps. In case of mass casualty; people with mild injuries may be treated at the field or a local hospital. Resuscitative interventions and damage control surgery should be performed in field hospitals for severe cases. Patients required further treatment should be referred to a third level hospital. Big hospitals should have plans for such unexpected events. It’s difficult to care many injured patients at the same time even for third level health centers. Severely injured patients may worsen during the admission process if the hospital is not ready to the current status. In this report, we aimed to discuss the hospital organizations for mass casualties in the view of a group of injured patients in a bomb attack in Iraq transported with a aero-medical evacuation and admitted to Gülhane Military Medical Academy.