Clinical Case Reports (Mar 2021)

A call for individualized evacuation strategies for floods: A case report of secondary surgical site infection in a postsurgery breast cancer patient in Fukushima, Japan, following Typhoon Hagibis in 2019

  • Akihiko Ozaki,
  • Yoshiaki Kanemoto,
  • Masahiro Wada,
  • Tomohiro Kurokawa,
  • Ayumu Kawamoto,
  • Toyoaki Sawano,
  • Divya Bhandari,
  • Masaharu Tsubokura,
  • Tetsuya Tanimoto,
  • Tomozo Ejiri,
  • Norio Kanzaki

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3727
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 3
pp. 1212 – 1214

Abstract

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Abstract Recognition of Individual and environmental risks is crucial to alleviate damage inflicted by disasters. In particular, an awareness of floods and their health risks in patients’ residences is important for patients and their healthcare professionals.

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