A Report of Medical Activity of 4th Rescue Team of Hiroshima Branch of Japan Red-Cross Society after the Great East Japan Earthquake

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  • Nomura Hiroshi
    Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital & Atomic-bomb Survivors Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan
  • Arima Junichi
    Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital & Atomic-bomb Survivors Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan
  • Nakano Soichiro
    Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital & Atomic-bomb Survivors Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan
  • Tanaka Takayuki
    Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital & Atomic-bomb Survivors Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan
  • Yanagisawa Yoshikazu
    Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital & Atomic-bomb Survivors Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan
  • Kido Satoshi
    Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital & Atomic-bomb Survivors Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan
  • Hotta Kensuke
    Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital & Atomic-bomb Survivors Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan
  • Kohyama Atsuko
    Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital & Atomic-bomb Survivors Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan
  • Oga Masayoshi
    Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital & Atomic-bomb Survivors Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan

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  • 東日本大震災における日本赤十字社広島県支部救護班第4班の活動報告

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We report our experience as the 4th rescue team of the Hiroshima branch of the Japan Red-Cross Society after the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011. Under the direction of the command post in Ishinomaki Red Cross Hospital, our team volunteered for medical activities at a temporary clinic set up as the domestic emergency response unit at the Ishinomaki Senshu University in Ishinomaki-shi, Miyagi Prefecture from of March 20 to 24, 2011. Our main tasks were providing medical examination for flood victims both in the clinic and other shelters, and survey of the disaster areas. According to patient records from March 17to 23, there was a tendency for increased respiratory disorders in a time-dependent manner during this period. At the individual shelters, nursing care for old patients with dementia was the gravest burden for the care givers. Since urgent problems in disaster areas vary all the time, it is important to anticipate arising new problems based on the surveyed information collected on-site and on-time.

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