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- Title
Medical Responses Following the Sendai Quake (East Japan Earthquake, March 11, 2011).
- Authors
Yambe, Tomoyuki; Shibata, Muneichi; Sumiyoshi, Taketada; Mibiki, Yoshiaki; Osawa, Noboru; Katahira, Yoshiaki; Yambe, Minoru; Tabayashi, Kou-ichi; Yamashina, Masanori; Sato, Eiji; Sato, Shinichi; Yagi, Tetsuo; Watanabe, Makoto; Akinno, Yoshihira; Munakata, Masanori; Owada, Naoki; Akiyama, Masatoshi; Saiki, Yoshikatsu; Sugita, Norihiro; Yoshizawa, Makoto
- Abstract
The article focuses on medical responses after the Sendai Earthquake in the east Japan on March 11, 2011. It says that the medical response to the disaster at the Tohoku University Hospital was the initial recovery and dealing with the aftereffects of the disaster, restoration of hospital functions, and helping of medical personnel to the afflicted hospitals. It also mentions that medical equipment preparation is ongoing to enable adequate response to another disaster.
- Subjects
JAPAN; MEDICAL care; DISASTER relief; SENDAI Earthquake, Japan, 2011; MEDICAL personnel; UNIVERSITY hospitals
- Publication
Artificial Organs, 2012, Vol 36, Issue 8, p760
- ISSN
0160-564X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1525-1594.2012.01522.x