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Triage in Mass-Casualty Events: The Haitian Experience

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2011

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Ofer Merin, Ian Miskin, Guy Lin, Itay Wiser, Yitshak Kreiss

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Abstract

Currently accepted triage principles for the most part are appropriate for efficiently providing medical care in a disaster area with extremely limited resources, but require extensive adaptation to local conditions.

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