Objective To analyze the injury characteristics and the rescue process and effects for the victims admitted in the People’s Hospital of Deyang City within 72 hours after 4.20 Lushan earthquake, so as to discuss how to adopt the emergency program to implement medical rescue in disaster relief. Methods The data of 25 earthquake victims admitted in the hospital from April 20th, 2013 to April 23rd, 2013 were collected to analyze age, gender, the location of injury, the injury state of different age groups, and the prognosis of victims. Results Of the 25 victims with injuries on 32 locations of the body, there were 20 cases with single injury (80.00%) and 5 cases with multiple injuries (20.00%). Most injuries were seen in four limbs, body surface, and soft tissues; and the incidence of single injury was higher than that of multiple injuries. The number of admitted victims was largest on the first day after earthquake, accounted for 92.00%, which was obviously higher than that on the second and the third day. Victims aged from 19 to 45 years old was more than those of other ages. Conclusion Scientific emergency command system and disaster emergency program play an high-efficient command role in disaster rescue, shorten the time of emergency response, and improve the ability of disaster rescue. The comprehensive capacity of self-rescue and well-organized rescue for disaster area can be improved as long as the general public is educated about the disaster emergency program and cooperative emergency drill. Meanwhile, smooth traffic and unobstructed communication are guaranteed in the disaster area, and the cooperative efforts are made by all walks of society.
ObjectiveTo evaluate four triage methods including START, Care-Flight, rapid emergency medicinescore (REMS) and Sacco score for the length of hospital stay, length of ICU stay and the severity of injury in Lushan earthquake victims.MethodsA retrospective analysis was performed in 41 cases of critical earthquake victims in the emergency department of West China Hospital from April 20th to April 26th, 2013 in Lushan earthquake. The length of hospital stay and length of ICU stay were compared for four triage methods. The correlation between four triage methods and length of hospital stay, length of ICU stay and injury severity score (ISS) were also analyzed.ResultsThe length of ICU stay for victims whose triage level were red by START triage method or Care-Flight triage method was longer than whose triage levels were yellow. But the length of hospital stay for victims between the two triage levels had no significant difference. In addition, there was a correlation between critical victims and the length of ICU stay in the classification of START triage method and Care-Flight triage method.ConclusionThe length of ICU stay of the victims, whose triage level are red by START triage or Care-Flight triage methods, are longer than whose triage level are yellow. The levels of START and Care-Flight triage are correlated to length of ICU stay.