Ahmet Gürkan Erdemir, Nursel Yurttutan, Mehmet Ruhi Onur, İlkay Sedakat İdilman, Mehmet Halil Öztürk, Şükrü Mehmet Ertürk, Can Çevikol, Erhan Akpınar
Two major earthquakes measuring 7.8 and 7.7 on the Richter scale struck Turkey and Northern Syria on February 6, claiming more than 50,000 lives. In such an unprecedented disaster, radiologists were confronted with very critical tasks of stepping out of the routine reporting process, performing radiological triage, managing acute adverse events, and optimizing imaging protocols. In our experience, radiologists can take three different positions in such disasters: (1) in the scene of the disaster, (2) serving in teleradiology, and (3) working in tertiary hospital for transported patients...
August 3, 2023: Emergency Radiology