With a sprawling campus and services equivalent to those of a well-equipped city hospital, the one here handled casualties from the first gulf war, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Somalia.
In a special meeting a few days ago for about 200 relatives of soldiers in Afghanistan, many seemed skittish when quizzing base officials about the procedures on handling casualties, and about the likely return date of soldiers.
It is recommended here that a Fully Bayesian approach is adopted which, it is argued, is statistically more appropriate to handling casualty data and flexible enough to allow confounding factors to be incorporated more rigorously with the end result of more reliable estimates of the impacts of road safety measures.
He weighed the ability to handle mass casualties against the immediacy of the rescue.
It was virtually impossible to handle without casualties; in one year, seven technicians required immediate treatment following accidental exposure.
Thirty ambulances and tactical teams responded to the scene and nearby hospitals were put on alert to be ready to handle mass casualties.
But the office also said that Defense Department officials told them that the hospital would have the capability to expand to handle the casualties should another war break out.
Whatever occurred, the investigation describes a mortuary that had to manage the devastating effects of homemade bomb attacks, the No. 1 cause of military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as frequent calls to handle mass casualties.
In addition, national emergency and disaster planners may doubt the ability of smaller private sector EDs, and hence, private hospitals, to be able to handle mass casualties and major disease outbreaks.
As medical teams struggled to handle the casualties pouring in, some of the wounded were laid out in the open, with intravenous drips set up next to them in hospital gardens.
The hospital handled 12,400 casualties last year and it was now packed with victims of the current offensive.
