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Disaster relief team arrives at Rice
  
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Members of the Disaster Medical Assistance Team arrived Tuesday afternoon in Houston to ready their support for the temporary triage center opening at Rice University in an undisclosed location on campus.
The center will handle triage and overflow of storm-related emergency care at several Texas Medical Center hospitals, which include Memorial Hermann, St. Luke’s, Ben Taub and Methodist hospitals, a Rice spokeswoman said. It will not handle walk-ins, she said with emphasis.
The DMAT will include 75 physicians, nurses, emergency medical technicians and physician assistants, and they’ll handle about 250 cases a day. As they gathered beneath Rice’s canopy of live oaks, a few of the DMAT members said they were from all over the country and had previously been deployed to disasters in Florida and Louisiana.
Not all the injuries they'll encounter will be from the wind, one said.
The aftermath has its hazards as well, they said. For example, people clearing their own tree debris don't always understand the safest of chain saw practices. Improper placement and use of generators can cause asphyxiation. Nails are hiding in debris, too.
And then there are the water-borne illnesses. Don't eat ice. And don't eat foods not washed in water you don't know the quality of.
The center will handle triage and overflow of storm-related emergency care at several Texas Medical Center hospitals, which include Memorial Hermann, St. Luke’s, Ben Taub and Methodist hospitals, a Rice spokeswoman said. It will not handle walk-ins, she said with emphasis.
The DMAT will include 75 physicians, nurses, emergency medical technicians and physician assistants, and they’ll handle about 250 cases a day. As they gathered beneath Rice’s canopy of live oaks, a few of the DMAT members said they were from all over the country and had previously been deployed to disasters in Florida and Louisiana.
Not all the injuries they'll encounter will be from the wind, one said.
The aftermath has its hazards as well, they said. For example, people clearing their own tree debris don't always understand the safest of chain saw practices. Improper placement and use of generators can cause asphyxiation. Nails are hiding in debris, too.
And then there are the water-borne illnesses. Don't eat ice. And don't eat foods not washed in water you don't know the quality of.
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