World Journal of Emergency Surgery (Apr 2020)
COVID-19 the showdown for mass casualty preparedness and management: the Cassandra Syndrome
- Federico Coccolini,
- Massimo Sartelli,
- Yoram Kluger,
- Emmanouil Pikoulis,
- Evika Karamagioli,
- Ernest E. Moore,
- Walter L. Biffl,
- Andrew Peitzman,
- Andreas Hecker,
- Mircea Chirica,
- Dimitrios Damaskos,
- Carlos Ordonez,
- Felipe Vega,
- Gustavo P. Fraga,
- Massimo Chiarugi,
- Salomone Di Saverio,
- Andrew W. Kirkpatrick,
- Fikri Abu-Zidan,
- Alain Chicom Mefire,
- Ari Leppaniemi,
- Vladimir Khokha,
- Boris Sakakushev,
- Rodolfo Catena,
- Raul Coimbra,
- Luca Ansaloni,
- Davide Corbella,
- Fausto Catena
Affiliations
- Federico Coccolini
- General, Emergency and Trauma Surgery Department, Pisa University Hospital
- Massimo Sartelli
- General and Emergency Surgery, Macerata Hospital
- Yoram Kluger
- Division of General Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus
- Emmanouil Pikoulis
- 3rd Department of Surgery, Attiko Hospital, MSc “Global Health-Disaster Medicine”, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)
- Evika Karamagioli
- MSc “Global Health-Disaster Medicine” School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)
- Ernest E. Moore
- Ernest E Moore Shock Trauma Center, Denver Health
- Walter L. Biffl
- Trauma Surgery Department, Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla
- Andrew Peitzman
- Surgery Department, University of Pittsburgh
- Andreas Hecker
- Deparment of General & Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Giessen
- Mircea Chirica
- Chirurgie Digestive, CHUGA-CHU Grenoble Alpes
- Dimitrios Damaskos
- General and Emergency Surgery, NHS Lothian
- Carlos Ordonez
- Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Fundación Valle del Lili
- Felipe Vega
- Department of Surgery, Hospital Angeles Lomas
- Gustavo P. Fraga
- Division of Trauma Surgery, School of Medical Sciences (SMS), University of Campinas (Unicamp)
- Massimo Chiarugi
- General, Emergency and Trauma Surgery Department, Pisa University Hospital
- Salomone Di Saverio
- General and Trauma Surgery, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Andrew W. Kirkpatrick
- General, Acute Care, Abdominal Wall Reconstruction, and Trauma Surgery, Foothills Medical Centre
- Fikri Abu-Zidan
- Department of Surgery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University
- Alain Chicom Mefire
- Department of Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Buea
- Ari Leppaniemi
- General Surgery Department, Meihlati Hospital
- Vladimir Khokha
- General Surgery Department, Mozir City Hospital
- Boris Sakakushev
- General Surgery Department, Medical University, University Hospital St George
- Rodolfo Catena
- Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Maggiore Hospital
- Raul Coimbra
- Riverside University Health System, CECORC Research Center, and Loma Linda University
- Luca Ansaloni
- General, Emergency and Trauma Surgery Department, Bufalini Hospital
- Davide Corbella
- Neuro ICU, Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital
- Fausto Catena
- Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Maggiore Hospital
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s13017-020-00304-5
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 15,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 6
Abstract
Abstract Since December 2019, the world is potentially facing one of the most difficult infectious situations of the last decades. COVID-19 epidemic warrants consideration as a mass casualty incident (MCI) of the highest nature. An optimal MCI/disaster management should consider all four phases of the so-called disaster cycle: mitigation, planning, response, and recovery. COVID-19 outbreak has demonstrated the worldwide unpreparedness to face a global MCI. This present paper thus represents a call for action to solicitate governments and the Global Community to actively start effective plans to promote and improve MCI management preparedness in general, and with an obvious current focus on COVID-19.
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