KAMEDO Report No. 87: Bomb Attack in Finnish Shopping Center, 2002

The detonation of a bomb in a shopping center in Vantaa, Finland, took place on 11 October 2002. Seven people died as a result and > 160 people required medical attention. Because the rescue teams were inadequately trained to respond to terrorist attacks, the event was handled according to protoc...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Prehospital and disaster medicine 2007, Vol.22 (1), p.86-88
Hauptverfasser:	Deverell, Edward, Örtenwall, Per, Almgren, Ola, Riddez, Louis
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	bomb attack Commerce coordination Emergency Medical Services - organization & administration Emergency Medical Services - standards Emergency Medical Services/organization & administration/standards emergency response Explosions Female Finland Health technology assessment Humans Male MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP Organizational Case Studies Public Facilities Special Report Statsvetenskap med inriktning mot krishantering och internationell samverkan Terrorism
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Zusammenfassung:	The detonation of a bomb in a shopping center in Vantaa, Finland, took place on 11 October 2002. Seven people died as a result and > 160 people required medical attention. Because the rescue teams were inadequately trained to respond to terrorist attacks, the event was handled according to protocol. A number of problems arose, including: people from different rescue agencies were difficult to distinguish from each other; there was inadequate communication between the incident site and the main hospital; relatives of victims were not kept informed; and psychiatric problems in the wake of the disaster were not addressed sufficiently.
ISSN:	1049-023X 1945-1938 1945-1938
DOI:	10.1017/S1049023X00004404