Study On The Investigation Of Earthquake Injuries And Medical Rsecue

Earthquake is one of the greatest disasters in the world and has been seriously destroying our civilization and human lives. In the past 20~ century, earthquake standed out to be the most dangerous disaster in the world, especially in China. The loss caused by earthquake is disastrous and the task of disaster mitigation is urgent. Disaster rescue is one of the important missions of PLA in peace-time, which has been confirmed by the national laws. But neither our government nor the army has deeply and widely probed into the characteristics of disaster relief Earthquakes usually burst out suddenly and unexpectedly and cause large numbers of injuries, which are emergent and very diffcult to rescue. We surveyed the literature of earthquake medical relief and investigated two earthquakes that had caused relatively severe loss of lives. One is the Yunnan Lijiang Ms7.0 earthquake on February 3rd,1996, the other is Herbei Zhangbei Ms6.2 earthquake on January 10th, 1998. Questionaries were designed to analyse the hospitalized injuries and medical rescue teams. Data was processed by statistics software SPSS8.0. The results and conclusions are: The charactristics of earthquake injuries was different both from war wounds and from common trauma such as traffic injuries, but have some similarity with war wounds in some aspcets, such as trauma feature, rescue system, evacuation et al, which is fit for fast action of the anny. Both military and local medical teams were lack of mobile medical equipments and special skills of emergent trauma cure in earthquake condition. The system for rescue was temporary and there were no effective coordination and command system. Supply of medical materials and drugs was informal and not ensured. All of the disaster pre-plans ignored the situation for the hospitals both as a victim and as a rescue responder. The decision-making for medical rescue was surmising and groundless, which needed fast estimation of the amount and feature of seismic casualties. We elucidate the methods and principles of earthquake injury classification and triage. The main problems in the managememt of disaster data and literature are also discussed. The aim of this study is to present some valuable references to the army to do rescue work of earthquake more efficiently in the future.