Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: The World Trade Center Attack Lessons for all aspects of health care. | Available online http content 5 6 299 Review The World Trade Center Attack Lessons for all aspects of health care Pritpal S Tamber and Jean-Louis Vincent Critical Care London UK Correspondence Pritpal S Tamber editorial@ Published online 6 November 2001 Critical Care 2001 5 299-300 2001 BioMed Central Ltd Print ISSN 1364-8535 Online ISSN 1466-609X Abstract The attack on the World Trade Center had the potential to overwhelm New York s health services. Sadly however the predicted thousands of treatable patients failed to materialize. Horror and sadness has now been replaced by anger fear and the determination to be better prepared next time. This determination not only exists in politics but also in health care and as with all attempts to enforce change there needs to be a period of collecting opinions and data. This article introduces nine reviews in Critical Care offering varied health care perspectives of the events of 11 September 2001 from people who were there and from experts in disaster management. Keywords disaster planning terrorism The attack on the World Trade Center had the potential to overwhelm New York s health services. Initial estimates spoke of 10 000 people in each of the two towers all of them either killed or injured. Local hospitals prepared for the worst and in the first few hours there were hundreds of patients with crush injuries and burns. Sadly however the predicted thousands of treatable patients failed to materialize. Horror and sadness has now been replaced by anger fear and the determination to be better prepared next time. This determination not only exists in politics but also in health care and as with all attempts to enforce change there needs to be a period of collecting opinions and data. In this issue of Critical Care there is a series of nine articles offering varied perspectives of the events of 11 September 2001. The series begins like many disaster responses - with a paramedic. Louis Cook is an .
