Disaster surge planning in Australia: measuring the immeasurable

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 16 April 2007 186 8 388-389 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2007 www.mja.com.au Editorials outbreaks, the rising threat of pandemic influenza, an and London bombings in 2004 and 2005. Mass trauma events in urban environments creat lems for hospitals in the first 4 hours, with th casualties likely to arrive at hospital in the first 60– Health systems need to be able to meet this increased acute mass casualty events, with an influx of patie A call for better data and focused research

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