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At 14:28 on May 12, 2008, an earthquake of 8.0 on the Richter Scale and a maximum intensity of 11 on Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale struck Wenchuan County in Szechuan Province in southwest China. As the most deadly and the strongest earthquake in China since the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, it led to 69,227 deaths, 375,783 injuries, and 17,923 people being reported missing [1].

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  1. Medical ICU, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China

    B. Du & L. Weng

  2. ICU, Fuxing Hospital, Capital University of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

    X. Xi

  3. ICU, West China Hospital, Chengdu, Szechuan, China

    Y. Kang

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  1. Department and School of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Catania School of Medicine and University-Hospital, Catania, Italy

    Antonino Gullo

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Keck Medical School, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Philip D. Lumb

  3. Department of Critical Care Medicine, Hospital Centro Medico de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela

    José Besso

  4. World Federation of Critical Care Nurses C/-Nursing Administration, Gold Coast Health, Southport, Queensland, Australia

    Ged F. Williams

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Du, B., Xi, X., Kang, Y., Weng, L., China Critical Care Clinical Trial Group (CCCCTG). (2009). Natural Disaster. In: Gullo, A., Lumb, P.D., Besso, J., Williams, G.F. (eds) Intensive and Critical Care Medicine. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-1436-7_31

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