In Turkey and Syria now they’re saying 1,800 people died already. Is it as simple as counting the bodies and reporting that?
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In mass disasters such as this, as compared to a small disaster like a multi-car road accident, care changes.
In the smaller accident, paramedics/EMT’s will arrive and start helping people, if your heart stops, they move to resuscitate.
In large disasters, triage occurs. A guy who is dead, or has recently died, may be saveable with proper defibrillation and other measures, but that could require several peoples attention to happen. So you get triage, where they say “this guy is gone, lets help that one who’s still breathing and in pain”
So when a medic calls somebody dead in those situations, they stay dead.
We see the reports so soon because their central authority has good reporting procedures, it’s likely Turkey has planned for something like this, as the fault line responsible is fairly active and has caused some big earthquakes in the past. So I’m not surprised they “had their shit together” especially on the record keeping.
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