The organization of emergency medical treatment with intention to the medicine of disasters and mass catastrophes

The medicine of disasters and mass catastrophes is an interdisciplinary medical specialism exploiting scientific discoveries made and lessons taught by experience in the other branches of medicine while attending to emergencies and carrying out rescue, demolition and sanitation operations. Practices already applied to handle mass catastrophes are being analyzed in case the humankind has to face similar events in the future. Related to the analyses are requirements for organizing urgent care. To illustrate the types of cooperation; to exemplify organization of the urgent care on specific cases; to compare the ways of cooperation between health-care facilities and the constituent elements of the Integrated Rescue System (IRS); and to cope with large-scale disasters, the mass catastrophes occurring in the Czech Republic have been treated to an analysis. Evaluated in the relevant cases was the level of security that the Czech Republic can rely on in case of emergencies - catastrophes and major disasters. Comparison was made between what was done by large health-care facilities and what was taken care of by the Integrated Rescue System, with special focus on the triage of the victims. As follows from analyses of different mass disasters, the medical care provided to save lives is satisfactory, and the urgent care is organized properly. The information on organizing urgent care oriented towards the medicine of disasters and mass catastrophes has been extracted from a variety of sources and through inquiring competent professionals