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Global Concord for the Mitigation of Acute Deaths in Disaster: Injury Prevention and Mitigation Strategies in Earthquakes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

E. A. Pretto Jr
E. A. Pretto Jr
Affiliation:
Associate Director, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, and Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology/CCM,University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Keywords

asphyxiabuildings, collapse patterns ofcommunity-based emergency medical servicesdeath, causes ofdisastersearthquakesextricationlife-supporting first aidpatterns of deathplanningpreparedness

References

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4. Comfort, L, Tekin, A., Pretto, E, Kirimli, B, Angus, D: Time, knowledge, and action: The effect of trauma upon community capacity for action. Intl Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 1998;16(1):73–91.Google Scholar