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Cir Cir ; 81(3): 246-55, 2013.
Article in Spanish | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23769257

ABSTRACT

Providing medical assistance in emergencies and disaster in advance makes the need to maintain Medical Units functional despite the disturbing phenomenon that confronts the community, but conflict occurs when the Medical Unit needs support and needs to be evacuated, especially when the evacuation of patients in a Critical Care Unit is required. In world literature there is little on this topic, and what is there usually focuses on the conversion of areas and increased ability to care for mass casualties, but not about how to evacuate if necessary, and when a wrong decision can have fatal consequences. That is why the Mexican Social Security Institute gave the task of examining these problems to a working group composed of specialists of the Institute. The purpose was to evaluate and establish a method for performing a protocol in the removal of patients and considering always to safeguard both staff and patients and maintain the quality of care.


La atención en emergencias y desastres implica mantener las unidades médicas en funcionamiento, pese al fenómeno perturbador al que se enfrente la comunidad; sin embargo, el conflicto ocurre cuando es la unidad médica la que necesita el apoyo y requiere ser evacuada, más aún cuando es indispensable la evacuación de los pacientes de las unidades de terapia intensiva. En la bibliografía mundial poco hay acerca de este tema, por lo general está enfocado a la reconversión de áreas e incremento de la capacidad para atención a saldo masivo de víctimas, pero no sobre cómo evacuar en caso necesario, y donde una decisión errónea puede traer consecuencias fatales. Por esto el Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social encomendó a un grupo de trabajo, conformado por médicos especialistas del propio Instituto, evaluar y establecer un método para protocolizar la evacuación de estos pacientes con la salvaguarda correspondiente del personal y del paciente sin que los estándares de calidad en la atención se alteren.


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Academies and Institutes/organization & administration , Disaster Planning , Emergency Medical Services/organization & administration , Social Security/organization & administration , Triage , Coma , Emergency Medical Services/supply & distribution , Emergency Shelter/organization & administration , Equipment and Supplies, Hospital , First Aid/instrumentation , Health Services Needs and Demand , Humans , Intensive Care Units , Mass Casualty Incidents , Mexico , Multiple Organ Failure/prevention & control , Multiple Organ Failure/therapy , Patient Care Team , Pharmaceutical Preparations/supply & distribution , Respiration, Artificial/instrumentation , Severity of Illness Index , Transportation of Patients/methods , Transportation of Patients/organization & administration , Triage/ethics , Triage/organization & administration
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