https://doi.org/10.4081/ecj.2009.4.39

A new discipline: Confined Areas Medicine

Vol. 5 No. 4 (2009)
Submitted: 17 February 2013
Accepted: 17 February 2013
Published: 19 August 2009
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Stefano Agostinis
lucia.zoppi@pagepress.org
Servizio di Emergenza Territoriale ed Elisoccorso “Piemonte 118”, Centrale Operativa di Grugliasco, Torino, .
Antonio Morra
Gestione dell’Emergenza, ASL TO1, PO Martini, Torino, Italia, .
Pierangelo Bozzetto
Pronto Soccorso/118, SSD Gestione dell’Emergenza, ASL TO1, PO Martini, Torino, .
The Confined Areas Medicine is a new discipline devoted to a specific branch of the components of emergency services. In it convey the characteristics typical of behavioral intervention in hostile area peculiar of the National Fire Corps and the National Speleological and Alpine Corps. While not considering the natural events that cause the collapse of housing the Italian case reported in the last fifty years about two hundred structural collapses that are charged over a thousand deaths (source: ISTAT 2006). Analysis of the documents accessible to the public today we can say without fear of denials, that 25% of these deaths are due to relief late or ineffective treatment on the spot. In fact, the NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) claims that 10% of victims trapped under the rubble can be saved with a location and an early recovery, which can significantly increase this percentage with the health care stabilization directly at the place of discovery.

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Stefano Agostinis, Servizio di Emergenza Territoriale ed Elisoccorso “Piemonte 118”, Centrale Operativa di Grugliasco, Torino
Antonio Morra, Gestione dell’Emergenza, ASL TO1, PO Martini, Torino, Italia
Pierangelo Bozzetto, Pronto Soccorso/118, SSD Gestione dell’Emergenza, ASL TO1, PO Martini, Torino

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Agostinis, S., Morra, A., & Bozzetto, P. (2009). A new discipline: Confined Areas Medicine. Emergency Care Journal, 5(4), 39–44. https://doi.org/10.4081/ecj.2009.4.39

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