Pawłowski Witold, Goniewicz Krzysztof, Goniewicz Mariusz, Czerski Robert, Lasota Dorota. Care of injured during disasters. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2018;8(4):387-395. eISNN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1237538 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/5446 https://pbn.nauka.gov.pl/sedno-webapp/works/864259 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part b item 1223 (26/01/2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eissn 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2018; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license (Http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 05.04.2018. Revised: 10.04.2018. Accepted: 27.04.2018. Care of injured during disasters Witold Pawłowski¹, Krzysztof Goniewicz¹, ², Mariusz Goniewicz³, Robert Czerski², Dorota Lasota4 ¹ Medical University of Warsaw, Department of Disaster Medicine ² Polish Air Force Academy, Faculty of National Security and Logistics ³ Medical University of Lublin, Department of Emergency Medicine 4 Medical University of Warsaw, Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology Abstract Disasters are very big challenge for health services around the world. The media almost daily inform mass accidents or disasters. In Poland, the issue of responding to events mass rests largely on the State Emergency Medical System. The paper presents the activities carried out by emergency medical services on health in emergency situations. The paper characterized conducting rescue operations and the problems and errors occurring during the conduct of rescue operations. Key words: disaster victims; assistance; evacuation