1. Medicine at mass gatherings: current progress of preparedness of emergency medical services and disaster medical response during 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games from the perspective of the Academic Consortium (AC2020)
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Naoto Morimura, Yasumitsu Mizobata, Manabu Sugita, Satoshi Takeda, Tetsuro Kiyozumi, Tomohisa Shoko, Yoshiaki Inoue, Yasuhiro Otomo, Atsushi Sakurai, Yuichi Koido, Seizan Tanabe, Tetsu Okumura, Fumihiro Yamasawa, Hideharu Tanaka, Tomoya Kinoshi, Koki Kaku, Kiyoshi Matsuda, Nobuya Kitamura, Tatsuya Hayakawa, Yasuhiro Kuroda, Yumiko Kuroki, Junichi Sasaki, Jun Oda, Masataka Inokuchi, Toru Kakuta, Satoru Arai, Noriaki Sato, Hiroyuki Matsuura, Masahiro Nozawa, Toshio Osamura, Kazunori Yamashita, Hiroshi Okudera, Akihiko Kawana, Tsugumichi Koshinaga, Satoshi Hirano, Erisa Sugawara, Michihiro Kamata, Yasuhito Tajiri, Mototsugu Kohno, Michiyasu Suzuki, Hiroyuki Nakase, Eiichi Suehiro, Hiroaki Yamase, Hiroshi Otake, Hiroshi Morisaki, Akiko Ozawa, Sho Takahashi, Kotaro Otsuka, Kiyokazu Harikae, Kazuo Kishi, Hiroshi Mizuno, Hideaki Nakajima, Hiroki Ueta, Masao Nagayama, Migaku Kikuchi, Hiroyuki Yokota, Takeshi Shimazu, Tetsuo Yukioka, and The Joint Committee of the Academic Consortium on Emergency Medical Services, Disaster Medical Response Plan during the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2020 (AC2020)
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COVID‐19 ,emergency medical service ,mass gathering ,Olympics ,public health‐care ,Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid ,RC86-88.9 - Abstract
Mass gatherings are events characterized by “the concentration of people at a specific location for a specific purpose over a set period of time that have the potential to strain the planning and response resources of the host country or community.” Previous reports showed that, as a result of the concentration of people in the limited area, injury and illness occurred due to several factors. The response plan should aim to provide timely medical care to the patients and to reduce the burden on emergency hospitals, and to maintain a daily emergency medical services system for residents of the local area. Although a mass gathering event will place a significant burden on the local health‐care system, it can provide the opportunity for long‐term benefits of public health‐care and improvement of daily medical service systems after the end of the event. The next Olympic and Paralympic Games will be held in Tokyo, during which mass gatherings will occur on a daily basis in the context of the coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) epidemic. The Academic Consortium on Emergency Medical Services and Disaster Medical Response Plan during the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2020 (AC2020) was launched 2016, consisting of 28 academic societies in Japan, it has released statements based on assessments of medical risk and publishing guidelines and manuals on its website. This paper outlines the issues and countermeasures for emergency and disaster medical care related to the holding of this big event, focusing on the activities of the academic consortium.
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- 2021
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