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Date Published: 31/08/2021
Online Published: 30/08/2021
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54804/yhthvb.4.2021.45
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No. 4 (2021)
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Nguyen, N. L., Doan, C. T., & Nguyen, T. D. (2021). Overview of emergency medical team in fire disaster and mass burn injuries (Part I). Journal of Disaster Medicine and Burn Injuries, 4, 7-12. https://doi.org/10.54804/yhthvb.4.2021.45

Overview of emergency medical team in fire disaster and mass burn injuries (Part I).

Nguyen Nhu Lam1,, Doan Chi Thanh1, Nguyen Tien Dung1
1 Le Huu Trac National Burn Hospital

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Due to complicated characteristics of patient category, burn severity, especially inhalation injury, medical response for fire and explosive disaster and mass burn injuries requires the rapid presence of experienced medical staff, especially burn specialists, to ensure proper triage, emergency treatment and transferring victims to appropriate health facilities.
In 2020, the World Health Organization established a technical expert group on burns to develop guidelines for burn emergency teams responding to mass-burn injuries. Accordingly, there are two types of burn emergency teams, including the burn rapid response team, abbreviated as BRRT and the burn specialist team, abbreviated as BST.
The content of this overview introduces the functions, duties and staffing of burn emergency teams as well as the role of training and cooperation mechanisms of these teams while performing their duties.

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