Challenges in Handling a Civilian Mass Pediatric Disaster During Flood Relief in a Partially Inundated Armed Forces Medical Facility

• 2023

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• Saroj Kumar Patnaik; Navdeep Lamba; Aradhana Aneja; Ashish Kumar Gupta
PMID: 37970699DOI: https://doi.org/10.5055/ajdm.0459

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This article describes the challenges faced by an armed forces hospital during a flood when it had to care for many children from a nearby flooded children's hospital. The facility, usually focused on adult trauma, had to adapt quickly. Key issues included limited resources and staff but were helped by experienced personnel and creative leadership. Most patients were newborns, with some needing intensive care in adult ICUs. The study highlights the need for better disaster plans focusing on pediatric needs in such hospitals, including training and resource allocation for emergencies like thermoregulation and safe transport of patients.

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Focus Areas: Natural Disasters; Severe Weather

Audiences: Emergency Managers; Physicians; Public Health Professionals

Emergency Management Stage: Response

Collection: Disaster Research Literature Review

Keywords: Child Mortality; Disaster Planning; Emergency Medical Services; Floods; Hospitals, Military; India; Infant, Newborn; Pediatrics; Triage; Pediatric Emergency Medicine; Disaster Medicine

Institutions: Army Hospital Research And Referral; Army Medical Core Centre and College; Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research

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