Hanyang Med Rev.  2015 Aug;35(3):152-156. 10.7599/hmr.2015.35.3.152.

Disaster Medical Assistance Team

• Lee KH

• KMID: 2168361
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.7599/hmr.2015.35.3.152

Abstract

A modern Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) is a group of professional and para-professional medical personnel organized to provide rapid-response medical care during a disaster situation. DMAT is a part of the disaster response system that acts as a trained, mobile, self-contained medical team in the acute phase of a disaster to provide necessary services such as triage, treatment, and transportation of injured patients in the devastated disaster area. The timeliness of DMAT response is critical to the administration of medical care and reduction of immediate mortality in disaster. While the number of members in a DMAT may vary between different nations. A small-scale DMAT is often composed of five to six people and there is good reason to consider this an effective unit for early disaster medical responses. An adequate structure and training system should be provided for Korean DMAT development in the near future.

Keyword

Disasters; Medical Assistance; Mass Casualty Incidents

MeSH Terms

Disasters*
Humans
Mass Casualty Incidents
Medical Assistance*
Mortality
Transportation
Triage

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