Introduction: Mexico has been subject to many social and natural events that have tested its response capacity, especially with regard to infrastructure and sanitary resources. Wide complex hospitals are a central response axis and reference in this type of event, so guaranteeing its comprehensive response, organized and with a decisive vision, promotes a prevention and mitigation strategy risk in the face of events of this nature, improving the prognosis and mortality of patients from the Emergency Department. Methods: Having as objectives, they analyze national and international regulations, in particular the safe hospital program as the axis of hospital response, as well as the existing documents on emergencies and disasters at the hospital level, they recover the statistics of the last 10 years in which Emergency and Disaster events have occurred and their impact on the mortality of patients treated in the Emergency Department of the Medical Center. A quantitative analysis of the events was carried out, with a retrospective methodology to analyze the events of different causes (epidemiological and trauma) to describe central tendency statistics on them as well as describe the associated mortality. Results: The findings of the events were divided into epidemiological and traumatic, and the injuries found in the patients were described as mostly traumatic in the upper trunk. Finding that in the last events of the last 10 years, there has been mortality < 0.06% for patients treated under mass reception protocols in our center. Conclusion: Mortality of patients in Emergencies and Disasters is linked to the Emergency Department protocols to provide care to patients. The safe hospital strategy continues to be a current tool to base response protocols. Training staff ensures that everyone speaks the same language and has common objectives.
Elisa N. Saleme (Sun,) studied this question.