Hospital Crisis Management After a Disaster: from the Epicenter of 2023 Türkiye-Syria Earthquake

Overview

Journal Ulus Travma Acil Cerrahi Derg

Specialties Emergency Medicine
General Surgery

Date 2023 Jul 6

PMID 37409925

Authors

Murat Gok

Mehmet Ali Melik

Baki Dogan

Polat Durukan

Affiliations

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Abstract

Background: In such cases where sudden destruction and injury are very high, search and rescue teams and hospitals can be the most important determining factors between people's lives and deaths.

Methods: This study was conducted retrospectively, after the two catastrophic earthquakes (Türkiye-Syria Earthquakes) by taking the records of the patients who admitted to our hospital. Patients' admission times, diagnoses, demographic data, triage codes, medical interventions, hemodialysis needs, crush syndrome and mortality rates were analyzed.

Results: In the first 5 days after the earthquake, 247 earthquake-related patients were admitted to our hospital. The most intense period of admission to the emergency department was the first 24 h. The most intensive period of surgical procedures was 24-48 h. It was observed that Orthopedic surgical procedures were applied most frequently and the most common cause of mortality was crush syndrome.

Conclusion: In terms of preparations for earthquakes, especially in hospitals in the earthquake zone it will be beneficial for each hospital to make hospital disaster plans. For this reason, we thought it would be useful to share our experiences during this disaster.

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