ABSTRACT
Focussing on possible mass casualty situations during events such as the soccer world championship in 2006, the Professional Board of Surgeons in Germany and the German Society for Surgery canvassed surgeons-in-chief in the last quarter of 2003 concerning disaster plans for hospitals. The rate of returned questionnaires amounted to 26% covering the following areas of interest: plans-ready to use, known by the employees as well as by the rescue coordination center, performance of exercises, and concepts on decontamination and detoxification. Based on past numbers of casualties during soccer disasters, an excursus into details also includes a description of an approach to reduce the danger of bottleneck effects at doors. A preliminary concept based on the upcoming system for funding hospitals in Germany and including new partnerships is outlined, succeeded by some hopefully helpful hints for a web-based hospital disaster plan.
Subject(s)
Disaster Planning/methods , Disaster Planning/statistics & numerical data , Emergency Medicine/statistics & numerical data , Emergency Service, Hospital/statistics & numerical data , Rescue Work/statistics & numerical data , Soccer/statistics & numerical data , Terrorism , Disasters , Emergency Medicine/methods , Germany/epidemiology , Rescue Work/methodsABSTRACT
History is a witness of the great importance and influence of islamic science from the period of "Golden Age of Arabic Civilisation". A famous scientist said: "Science has no country, it is international; we all share in fruits of investigations of people from different traditions and all ages." There are many worldwide famous arabian scientists: El-Kindi, Er-Razi, Ibn Sina, El-Biruni, Ibn Hajsem, Ez-Zahravi, El-Farabi, Ibn Zuhr, Ibn Ruzd etc. These names, among several hundreds of arabian physicians, attribute "Golden Age" of islamic science. That period was characterised by movements, reprocessing of ideas. That reprocessing of ideas has gained the great minds together, and that process is continuous. That is why we have to be grateful to them. One of them, who is not enough famous within medical professionals, Az-Zahrawi, belong to the greatest surgeons in the arabian "golden age" period.
