TY - JOUR
T1 - The 2010 Haiti earthquake
T2 - A pathology perspective aboard the USNS Comfort
AU - Hussey, Sean M.
AU - Dukette, Phillip J.
AU - Dunn, Scott H.
AU - Evans, Toinette J.
AU - Oakes, Natalie Y.
AU - Gleeson, Todd D.
AU - Donahue, Timothy F.
PY - 2011/4
Y1 - 2011/4
N2 - The US Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort played an integral role in the initial phases of Operation Unified Response-Haiti following the devastating earthquake that struck near Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, on January 12, 2010. Deployed to Haiti from its home in Baltimore, Maryland, just 4 days after the earthquake, the USNS Comfort would become the region's primary tertiary casualty receiving center for 6 weeks. The pathology and laboratory department staff onboard the ship helped support the mission and experienced unique mass casualty/disaster relief scenarios while underway. This article reviews the accounts of the core laboratory, microbiology, anatomic pathology, and blood bank divisions on the USNS Comfort from the chaotic first few weeks to the final patient discharge 40 days after Operation Unified Response-Haiti began.
AB - The US Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort played an integral role in the initial phases of Operation Unified Response-Haiti following the devastating earthquake that struck near Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, on January 12, 2010. Deployed to Haiti from its home in Baltimore, Maryland, just 4 days after the earthquake, the USNS Comfort would become the region's primary tertiary casualty receiving center for 6 weeks. The pathology and laboratory department staff onboard the ship helped support the mission and experienced unique mass casualty/disaster relief scenarios while underway. This article reviews the accounts of the core laboratory, microbiology, anatomic pathology, and blood bank divisions on the USNS Comfort from the chaotic first few weeks to the final patient discharge 40 days after Operation Unified Response-Haiti began.
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M3 - Review article
C2 - 21466355
AN - SCOPUS:79955104863
SN - 0003-9985
VL - 135
SP - 417
EP - 421
JO - Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
JF - Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
IS - 4
ER -