Pawłowski Witold, Goniewicz Krzysztof, Goniewicz Mariusz, Czerski Robert, Lasota Dorota. Evacuation of victims in mass events and disasters. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2018;8(5):51-59. eISNN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1237659 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/5455 https://pbn.nauka.gov.pl/sedno-webapp/works/864276 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 Author(s) 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: 02.04.2018. Revised: 12.04.2018. Accepted: 30.04.2018. Evacuation of victims in mass events and 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 The tasks of health in mass events, disasters and emergency Situations ensue from the specific nature of each event, which determines the scale of the needs and difficulties needed to refrain. Emergency medical procedures at the mass event and disasters called the doctrine of conduct mass loss, requires a complete change in thinking and withdrawal from the Generally Accepted Principles of treatment From the efficient organization of the rescue operation depends on the success of the entire treatment process. The aid time and providing the victims of the accident to the hospital usually we decides about the fate of the victim. The article presents the medical rescue activities used during mass accidents and disasters and discusses the Principles of evacuation. Keywords: Evacuation; medical rescue operations; disaster, mass accidents