Advances in Renal Replacement Therapy became Adv Chronic Kidney Dis
Volume 10, Issue 2 , Pages 93-99, April 2003

The organization and interventions of the ISN Renal Disaster Relief Task Force☆☆☆

Renal Divisions of the University Hospitals Ghent, Belgium; San Diego, CA; and Istanbul, Turkey

Abstract 

This article describes first the organization of the ISN Renal Disaster Relief Task Force-European branch founded by the ISN Commission on ARF. The task force aims at rapid dialysis intervention in case of acute disasters associated with a high number of ARF cases caused by crush syndrome. The organization involves European volunteers consisting of nephrologists, dialysis nurses, and technicians willing to go to disaster areas as far as India, the Middle East, and North Africa to assist the local nephrologic communities. In addition, an important role in the organization is played by Médecins sans Frontiières, the industry, and several nurses' and technicians' associations. The major intervention of the task force was at the occasion of the Marmara earthquake in Turkey in 1999. Additional more recent and minor interventions occurred in India and Algeria. © 2003 by the National Kidney Foundation, Inc.

Keywords:  Acute renal failure, crush syndrome, task force

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☆ Address correspondence to Norbert Lameire, MD, Renal Division, Department of Medicine, University Hospital, 185, De Pintelaan, 9000 Ghent, Belgium. E-mail: norbert.lameire@rug.ac.be

☆☆ 1073-4449/03/1002-0003$30.00/0

PII: S1073-4449(03)70001-6

Advances in Renal Replacement Therapy became Adv Chronic Kidney Dis
Volume 10, Issue 2 , Pages 93-99, April 2003

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