TY - JOUR
T1 - [Emergency medicine after a catastrophic disaster
T2 - from a view of geriatrics and gerontology].
AU - Okinaga, Shoji
AU - Daito, Hisayoshi
AU - Suzuki, Motoi
AU - Shiihara, Jun
AU - Arai, Hiroyuki
PY - 2013/6
Y1 - 2013/6
N2 - The megathrust earthquake and the towering tsunami hit the east coast of Japan on March 11th of 2011 after intervals of 1,142 years. About 90 % of nearly 20,000 victims were drowned in devastating waves, while every town and city along the coast turned out to be a ruin. Over 400,000 people were forced to move to the evacuation centers where the evacuees slept on the floor without electricity, running water or heating systems at freezing nights. Emergency medicine, therefore, was more required during the evacuation phase than during the acute phase of the tsunami disaster. Here discussed is the phenomenon that the events happened mostly to the elderly evacuees especially in the swept area by silty polluted seawater.
AB - The megathrust earthquake and the towering tsunami hit the east coast of Japan on March 11th of 2011 after intervals of 1,142 years. About 90 % of nearly 20,000 victims were drowned in devastating waves, while every town and city along the coast turned out to be a ruin. Over 400,000 people were forced to move to the evacuation centers where the evacuees slept on the floor without electricity, running water or heating systems at freezing nights. Emergency medicine, therefore, was more required during the evacuation phase than during the acute phase of the tsunami disaster. Here discussed is the phenomenon that the events happened mostly to the elderly evacuees especially in the swept area by silty polluted seawater.
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M3 - Review article
C2 - 23855220
AN - SCOPUS:84883479222
VL - 71
SP - 1097
EP - 1102
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IS - 6
ER -
