TY - JOUR
T1 - Infection control in field hospitals after a natural disaster
T2 - Lessons learned after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti
AU - Lichtenberger, Paola
AU - Miskin, Ian N.
AU - Dickinson, Gordon
AU - Schwaber, Mitchell J.
AU - Ankol, Omer E.
AU - Zervos, Marcus
AU - Campo, Rafael E.
AU - Doblecki-Lewis, Susanne
AU - Déry, Mark Alain
AU - Munoz-Price, L. Silvia
PY - 2010/9
Y1 - 2010/9
N2 - After the January 12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti, Project Medishare and the University of Miami organized, built, and staffed a 200-bed field hospital (the University of Miami Hospital in Haiti [UMHH]) on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince.We describe the operational challenges of providing a safe environment at the UMHH. Furthermore, we compared how these issues were addressed at this ad hoc hospital with how they were addressed at the field hospital of the Israel Defense Force, a fully deployable hospital with an organization fine-tuned as a result of prior disaster situations, also in Haiti.
AB - After the January 12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti, Project Medishare and the University of Miami organized, built, and staffed a 200-bed field hospital (the University of Miami Hospital in Haiti [UMHH]) on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince.We describe the operational challenges of providing a safe environment at the UMHH. Furthermore, we compared how these issues were addressed at this ad hoc hospital with how they were addressed at the field hospital of the Israel Defense Force, a fully deployable hospital with an organization fine-tuned as a result of prior disaster situations, also in Haiti.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77955765011&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1086/656203
DO - 10.1086/656203
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C2 - 20645864
AN - SCOPUS:77955765011
SN - 0899-823X
VL - 31
SP - 951
EP - 957
JO - Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
JF - Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
IS - 9
ER -