Pawłowski Witold, Goniewicz Krzysztof, Goniewicz Mariusz, Czerski Robert, Lasota Dorota. Tasks of the hospital emergency department during disasters. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2018;8(5):60-69. eISNN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1237718 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/5456 https://pbn.nauka.gov.pl/sedno-webapp/works/864280 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: 05.04.2018. Revised: 12.04.2018. Accepted: 30.04.2018. Tasks of the hospital emergency department during disasters Witold Pawłowski¹, Krzysztof Goniewicz¹, ², Mariusz Goniewicz³, Robert Czerski², Dorothy 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 4Medical University of Warsaw, Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology Abstract Hospital emergency departments with emergency medical teams are the basic units of the National Medical Rescue System. Hospital emergency department is an independent organizational unit within the meaning of the hospital health care facilities, providing the benefits of health care that persons in a state of sudden health threat, satisfying the Requirements of the Act of 8 September 2006 about the National Medical Rescue System. In research presents the procedure of dealing in the situation of a disaster of the hospital emergency department. Characterized in details the mobilization personnel system, the role of hospital emergency staff and hospital staff jobs in emergency department in the situation of disaster. Key words: hospital emergency department; emergency medical; disaster.