Medical coordination in airport disasters.

The goals of an Airport Disaster Plan includes the care, treatment and transportation of the wounded with the quality and quantity of care that minimizes the mortality and morbidity of the survivors of a crash. Coordination of the medical aspects of these plans requires participation by physicians, nurses, ambulance and hospital personnel, psychologists, and psychiatrists. To maintain these divers groups in a state of readiness for a potential disaster which may have a frequency of 5-20 years is a challenging problem. This paper addresses methods of accomplishing this goal.