How does China keep COVID-19 outside its boarder? First-hand experience of medical staff at an international airport in China

A Boeing 747 took off from Nairobi International Airport on the morning of November 20, 1974. Its leading edge flaps failed to operate for technical reasons and barely a minute later the aircraft crashed, the tail separating from the fuselage. The wreck caught fire.Since the aircraft's home base was Frankfurt, a Crisis Management Staff (CMS) was immediately constituted there. As an airline physician, I was requested to evaluate the medical information received from Nairobi and act as medical advisor to the CMS. According to the first rough estimate received, approximately 160 persons were believed to be on board at the time of take-off. By the same estimate, about 100 of these had escaped with their lives, of whom about 60 had been injured. Since there was no accurate information about the availability of adequate medical supplies in Nairobi, I advised the CMS that I should go with a medical staff and equipment to Nairobi. In 1974, the Lufthansa Medical Service in Frankfurt was manned by only three physicians as compared with six at present. Of these three, one was on vacation, one was required to maintain the Medical Service in Frankfurt and only one could be spared to go to the site of the crash.On arrival in Nairobi, my colleague and I contacted and registered 44 passengers who had been on board: those who had been seriously injured were discovered in local hospitals, others were in hotels and lodgings in the locality.

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Erratum to: How does China keep COVID-19 outside its border? First-hand experience of medical staff at an international airport in China

Journal of Travel Medicine ◽

10.1093/jtm/taab162 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Rui Xiao ◽

Tianming Zhao ◽

Yile Wu ◽

Ce Cheng ◽

Chenyu Sun

Keyword(s):

Medical Staff ◽

International Airport

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Coordinating Medical Literature with Patient Care

Methods of Information in Medicine ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1636598 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 16 (04) ◽

pp. 234-240 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Joann Gustafson ◽

J. Nelson ◽

Ann Buller

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Medical Staff ◽

Medical Information ◽

Medical Literature ◽

Medical Information System ◽

Staff Members ◽

Information Displays ◽

Medical Displays ◽

Computerized Medical Information ◽

The Given

The contribution of a special library project to a computerized problem-oriented medical information system (PROMIS) is discussed. Medical information displays developed by the PROMIS medical staff are accessible to the health care provider via touch screen cathode terminals. Under PROMIS, members of the library project developed two information services, one concerned with the initial building of the medical displays and the other with the updating of this information. Information from 88 medical journals is disseminated to physicians involved in the building of the medical displays. Articles meeting predetermined selection criteria are abstracted and the abstracts are made available by direct selective dissemination or via a problem-oriented abstract file. The updating service involves comparing the information contained in the selected articles with the computerized medical displays on the given topic. Discrepancies are brought to the attention of PROMIS medical staff members who evaluate the information and make appropriate changes in the displays. Thus a feedback loop is maintained which assures the completeness, accuracy, and currency of the computerized medical information. The development of this library project and its interface with the computerized health care system thus attempts to deal with the problems in the generation, validation, dissemination, and application of medical literature.

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