Medical Treatment at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport after Hurricane Katrina The Experience of Disaster Medical Assistance Teams WA

Sanford, C., Jui, J., Miller, H., and Jobe, K. (2007). Medical Treatment at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport after Hurricane Katrina: The Experience of Disaster Medical Assistance Teams WA-1 and OR-2. (Abstract only.) Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease. 5(4):230-5.
The authors describe the patient evacuation that occurred after Hurricane Katrina—the largest air evacuation in U.S. history. They also highlight the multiple factors that “diminished the effectiveness” of the entire operation (e.g., the length of time it took to stand up medical triage to track and move patients, understaffing, and failure to use the incident command system).
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