Infections and sepsis in disasters
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1Department of Surgery, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Critical Care Clinics
|April 1, 1991
Abstract:
It seems reasonable to expect that infections will occur after certain types of disasters. There are some data to support this conjecture in studies of tornadoes, hurricanes, and mass trauma situations. We have tried to extrapolate from these data what we believe will be the infectious effects of different types of disasters, taking into account the potential for alteration in the host secondary to injury, the modification of living conditions, and the possibility of the disruption of medical care.