Dr. Shmuel Shapira has a dream. He would like to create an International Center for Terror Medicine in Jerusalem.
The Center would include a research department, preventive medical services, and specialized care dealing with the physical and psychological issues related to suicide bombings and other forms of terror attacks.
“The most important thing to gain from every medical event is the ability to draw some conclusions or learn some lessons, and in Israel we have improved a lot in this area in the last couple of years,” Shapira said in an interview with ISRAEL21c.
Most hospitals in today’s world are equipped with a trauma registry which contains clinical data relating to the victims who come to the emergency room. None include the kind of information that Shapira contends trauma physicians need -- information about how injuries from terror attacks are both sustained and treated.
He dreams of developing a medical terror registry, to be based in the Center, that would contain data sorted by type of terror event, number of casualties resulting from the event for which the patient is being treated, and other information.
Shapira has overseen the treatment of some 3,000 victims of terror in the past six years. The knowledge that he and his teams gained from that experience, tragic though it might have been, is a precious resource for medical professionals throughout the world. Shapira hopes to have the chance to make it available to medical professionals abroad and at home through his Center for Terror Medicine.
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The Center would include a research department, preventive medical services, and specialized care dealing with the physical and psychological issues related to suicide bombings and other forms of terror attacks.
“The most important thing to gain from every medical event is the ability to draw some conclusions or learn some lessons, and in Israel we have improved a lot in this area in the last couple of years,” Shapira said in an interview with ISRAEL21c.
Most hospitals in today’s world are equipped with a trauma registry which contains clinical data relating to the victims who come to the emergency room. None include the kind of information that Shapira contends trauma physicians need -- information about how injuries from terror attacks are both sustained and treated.
He dreams of developing a medical terror registry, to be based in the Center, that would contain data sorted by type of terror event, number of casualties resulting from the event for which the patient is being treated, and other information.
Shapira has overseen the treatment of some 3,000 victims of terror in the past six years. The knowledge that he and his teams gained from that experience, tragic though it might have been, is a precious resource for medical professionals throughout the world. Shapira hopes to have the chance to make it available to medical professionals abroad and at home through his Center for Terror Medicine.
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