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An Overview: Pediatric Trauma During Natural and Man-Made Disasters

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This chapter is based on our experience in providing medical care to children after earthquakes in Armenia (1988), Iran (1990), Georgia (1991), the USA (San Francisco, 1991), Egypt (1992), Japan (1995), Russia (Neftegorsk, Sakhalin, 1995), Afghanistan (1998, 2002), Turkey (1999), India (2001), Algeria (2003), Pakistan (2005), Indonesia (2006, 2009), Haiti (2010), and Nepal (2015). Medical assistance in these countries was provided by the Russian specialized medical pediatric team which included medical specialists of the Clinical and Research Institute of Urgent Pediatric Surgery and Trauma. There is no other team like this in the world. In many countries, it is known as Doctor Roshal’s Brigade. This brigade provided medical assistance to thousands of injured children all over the world [1–7]. Our chapters in this book were written by the immediate participants of these events. Based on our data, mortality and disability rate in children drops by half when medical assistance is provided by pediatric surgeons, compared to doctors for adults. Adult surgeons are more likely to do amputation surgeries than pediatric ones.

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  1. President of Clinical and Research Institute of Urgent Pediatric Surgery and Trauma, Children’s Doctor of the World, Bolshaya Polyanka Str 22, Moscow, 119180, Russia

    Leonid M. Roshal MD, PhD, Dr Sc (med)

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  1. Department of Orthopedics, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA

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  2. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Bar Ilan Univ, Ziv Medical Ctr, Zefat, Israel

    Alexander Lerner

  3. Urgent Pediatric Surgery and Trauma, Clinical and Research Institute, Moscow, Russia

    Leonid Roshal

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Roshal, L.M. (2016). An Overview: Pediatric Trauma During Natural and Man-Made Disasters. In: Wolfson, N., Lerner, A., Roshal, L. (eds) Orthopedics in Disasters. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48950-5_35

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