Disaster Victim Care by Emergency Surgeons One Year after the Great East Japan Earthquake

Kojiro Shiga^1,2,3, Koichiro Homma^1*, Miki Iwasaki², Hirotaka Kato², Tsutomu Ebina², Daizo Fukusima^2,4, Takashi Sasaki⁵ and Shingo Hori¹

¹Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

²Hanaizumi Regional Clinic, Iwate Prefectural Iwai Hospital, Japan

³Department of Thoracic Surgery, Southern Tohoku Hospital, 172-7choume, Yatsuyamamada, Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan

⁴Department of Gastroenterology, Southern Tohoku Hospital, Japan

⁵Iwate Prefectural Central Hospital, Japan

^*Corresponding Author: Koichiro Homma, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku Tokyo, 160-8582, Japan, Tel: +81-3-3225-1323 Email: