The Influence Of Planning on Emergency Medical Services In Disasters

The increasing attention directed toward emergency medical services (EMS) in the medical and health planning communities has encouraged a growth in concern for the special demands placed on EMS in mass casualty situations. Brief case studies, most common to the increasing body of professional literature on disaster EMS planning, raise issues of onsite care, coordination, and communication technologies, among many others (Reynolds and Wright, 1976) The varied positions on these issues, revealed in the literature and in plans themselves, reflect a seldom explicit debate between two alternative conceptions of disaster planning