2017 Volume 17 Issue 1 Pages 1_30-1_42
An activity time of DMAT for the life-saving treatment during the acute phase is less than 3 days from an earthquake occurrence. Therefore, DMAT have to arrive at disaster stricken area immediately but an air route and a land route as the means of transportation have a high possibility of simultaneous damage. There is also delay of gathering of the commander, medical appliances and disaster information. In this paper, the method of evaluating the efficiency of DMAT is proposed in consideration of the delay of gathering of the personnel required and the damage of the land route and air route facilities. We applied the proposed method and evaluated fatalities to the medical unit of a certain prefecture as an example. In addition, we evaluated the decrease of fatalities by earthquake-resistant measures.
